MONET 2010 - ACM/Springer Mobile Networks & Applications (MONET)SPECIAL ISSUE ON Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks

Call for Papers
ACM/Springer Mobile Networks & Applications (MONET)
SPECIAL ISSUE ON
Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks
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Overview
Recently, there has been a lot of increasing investigation on a new type of wireless sensor network, which is generally known
as body sensor networks (BSNs). Following the continuous advances in wireless communications technologies, there is a
growing interest in the design and development of BSNs systems for applications of improving people’s daily life, which
leads to an increasing demand on interconnecting BSNs with other emerging wireless technologies, such as RFID technology,
wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Zigbee, Bluetooth, WiBree, video surveillance system, WPAN, WLAN, internet, and
cellular network. With BSNs being incorporated into these technologies, BSNs become ubiquitous. The marketing
opportunities for advanced consumer electronics and services will be expanded extensively. More and more autonomous and
intelligent applications which are close to human’s life will be generated. For example, by using body sensors to collect
patient information, and by deploying diverse wireless networking systems for enhanced diagnosis assistance and action
handling, better E-healthcare management system can be designed for providing more desirable services, which implies huge
market yet to be discovered, due to an increasing demand of E-healthcare management system in recent years.
In this special issue, we solicit research papers on body sensor hardware, system architectures, networking & communication
protocols, applications, test-bed and prototype, biomedical sensor data processing and management. Especially, we are
interested in the following communication issues:
*Intra-BSN Communication: The terminology of “intra-BSN communication