WIPH 2009 - 2009 International Workshop on Wireless Pervasive Healthcare (WiPH 2009)

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Category WIPH 2009

Deadline: January 31, 2009 | Date: March 31, 2009

Venue/Country: London, U.K.

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Aim of the workshop

Wireless access for pervasive healthcare is an emerging cross-disciplinary subject, focusing on the research and developments of pervasive and ubiquitous wireless technologies in order to improve the quality of healthcare and wellness. With the recent advances in hardware design and wireless communications, the evolution of new generations of embedded wireless devices, which facilitates reliable, comprehensive, and high-standard healthcare, has attracted intensive attention from both industries and academic institutes. Particularly, developments in wireless infrastructure, such as body-area networks or pervasive health-monitoring system, have proved beneficial to deliver telemedicine services regardless of a patient's physical location. However, there still exist many challenges to overcome before the real marketing stage due to requirements for reliable signal propagation characteristics, low network latency, low packet loss, robust data and image transmission, and the great need for safe, secure, and dependable operation. In addition, cost issue is another key concern for worldwide utilization of wireless devices for pervasive healthcare.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together both the industry and academia to present and discuss the problems, challenges, directions, and state-of-art in the fields of wireless access for pervasive healthcare. The workshop will try to build a bridge between the industry and academic research so that future collaborations between two sectors can be identified. In addition, we welcome demos of state-of-the-art products.

Detailed instructions for paper submission can be found in: http://www.pervasivehealth.org/submission.shtml

Topics of Interests (not limited to)

Topics of interest relating to wireless access techniques for healthcare are (but not limited to):

New network architectures

RF techniques

Propagation models, such as on-body/in-body propagation channel models

Transmission technologies and baseband signal processing

Health sensing techniques

Health imaging and localization by large bandwidth communications, for example UWB

Mobile, wearable and implantable sensor integration

Ambient and home based technologies

Sensors and mobile devices for continuous patient monitoring

Wireless sensor networks for hospitals, operating rooms, elderly monitoring, and other applications

WSN network performance modeling: methodology and evaluation

Cross-layer solutions to render WSN performance power-aware

WSNs application design aspects: patient monitoring

Enabling technologies for future medical devices and systems

Embedded, real-time, networked system infrastructures

Robust, verifiable, fault-tolerant networking protocols

Real-time data acquisition, processing and analysis

QoS and resource management

Cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum sharing techniques

Distributed control of wearable and implantable medical devices

Security and privacy issues

Testbeds, prototypes, and other novel applications

Electromagnetic interference by wireless devices on medical equipment

Interoperability and standardization

Important dates

Paper submission: Janunary 31, 2009

Notification to Authors: February 20, 2009

Camera Ready: February 27, 2009

Workshop dates: March 31, 2009