[Tccc] IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) Special Issue on "Emerging Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) for Ubiquitous Healthcare"

Honggang Wang hwang1atumassd.edu
Mon Jun 3 21:11:52 EDT 2013



 
  


CALL FOR PAPERS: 

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) Special Issue on 
Emerging Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) for Ubiquitous Healthcare 

Health monitoring of patients vital signs over wireless body area networks 
(WBANs) provides an economical solution to rising costs in the healthcare 
system with real-time updates of medical records. The WBAN consisting of a set 
of mobile and small intercommunicating sensors is expected to significantly 
impact future healthcare services. On the other hand, many other techniques 
such as smartphones, cloud services and social networks have been widely 
deployed for many mobile applications and are offering a great opportunity to 
extend the functionalities of WBANs. The integration of WBANs with these 
promising techniques for ubiquitous healthcare applications will lead to 
interpretation of the broad concepts of telemedicine and m-health. 
There are significant research challenges involving the development of 
protocols, platform, applications of WBANs, especially when wireless body 
sensors are either wearable or implanted into the human body and thus their 
resources and capacities are extremely limited. Many existing sensor network 
solutions are not applicable to WBANs. There are numerous research issues in 
WBANs related to interoperability, communication interference, security, 
mobility, energy, deployment, and costs, etc. In addition, there is a promising 
research trend for the integration of cloud computing with WBANs to provide 
ubiquitous and mobile healthcare services. Further, traditional solutions in 
WBANs have to be evolved with the emergence of new hardware and techniques such 
as smartphones and energy harvesting. For example, adopting energy harvesting 
techniques has led to the development of ultra-low power wireless communication 
and miniaturized sensors that are suited for m-health applications. New 
emphasis on the applications such as smart health and wellbeing will 
significantly speed up the wide deployment of WBANs and broaden their impact. 
It is a challenging task to develop more innovative health applications such as 
elder care, sports, military, or security. Extending the WBANs technology to 
new application domains can be supported by seamless and secure data 
communications between users, or between users and base stations with required 
quality of service (QoS). Therefore, it is critical to understand and develop 
WBANs from the perspective of applications, protocol and system. The specific 
focus of this special issue will be on the ubiquitous healthcare service impact 
and implications of emerging WBANs technologies. Topics of interest include, 
but are not limited to: 

* Security and privacy 
* Network protocols and standardization for WBANs 
* The integration of cloud computing with WBANs 
* Data storage, distribution, and cloud services for WBANs 
* Inter-WBANs communication interference mitigation 
* Nano communication and nanotechnologies for WBANs 
* Wearable computing 
* Embedded medical sensor devices 
* Cognitive radio techniques for WBANs 
* Trends, future applications for WBANs 
* Regulatory challenges and commercialization of WBANs 
* Biometrics using WBANs and their applications 
* Resource allocation and cross-layer design 
* Hardware and testbed platforms for WBANs 
* Social networks for WBANs 
* Energy harvesting for low-power WBANs 
* Modeling, simulations, and performance evaluations 
* QoS of WBANs 
* Innovative smart health and wellbeing applications 

GUEST EDITORS 

Honggang Wang 
Univ. Massachusetts Dartmouth (USA) 
hwa... at umassd.edu 


Athanasios V. Vasilakos 
Univ. of Western Macedonia (Greece) 
vasil... at ath.forthnet.gr 


Majid Sarrafzadeh 
Univ. of California, Los Angeles (USA) 
ma... at cs.ucla.edu 


Chenyang Lu 
Washington University in St. Louis (USA) 
l... at cse.wustl.edu 

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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 15th June 2013 
FIRST REVIEWS DUE: 15th August 2013 
REVISED MANUSCRIPT DUE: 15th September 2013 
FINAL DECISION: 30th September 2013 
PUBLICATION: October-November 2013 

Please address all other correspondence regarding this special issue to the 
Lead Guest Editor Dr. Honggang Wang (hwa... at umassd.edu) 

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