RA-WERHA 2015 - First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and Deployment for Real-time and Healthcare Applications

The recent advances in wireless sensing technology have led to the emergence of a wide range of applications in different domains such as medical, sports, consumer electronics, social networking, and enterprise usage. E-health is recognized as the most important and promising among these applications for its potential for health monitoring of chronic illnesses, lifesaving in emergency situations, and its ability to provide round the clock healthcare to rural and disadvantaged areas. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are the key enabler of remote and in-hospital health monitoring and are expected to revolutionize the health and real-time body monitoring industry.
WBAN technology has quickly attracted a lot of attention from researchers, practitioners and clinicians as well as mobile health related data managers. The main objective of WBAN is to provide cost-effective, flexible, and secure use of biotelemetry information and communication technologies to support both medical and non-medical applications. This technology enables ambient assisted living by providing more freedom to the elderly, disabled, and chronic illness sufferers. Moreover, it can be rapidly deployed in emergency and disaster situations facilitating faster and more accurate remote diagnosis of victims. WBAN technology unleashes the possibilities and potentials for personalized medicine which promises to revolutionize healthcare that will have a significant societal and economic impact and improve the citizens’ quality of life, particularly in future smart cities. However, WBAN applications present several challenges for the research community including: passive non-intrusive and power utilisation design issues, security and reliability with regards to the integrity of the acquired biotelemetry data and the real-time transmission of the monitored data using QoS aware techniques. Moreover, new emerging applications, which consider critical flows, are gaining more and more popularity in various activity domains.
This workshop seeks to bring together leading academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and clinicians to identify and discuss the major technical challenges and recent results related to WBANs based medical and non-medical applications. All are welcome to present and share their latest research findings, ideas, simulation tools and prototype test-beds at the 2014 RA-WERHA workshop.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Wearable and body sensor networks
Wireless biotelemetry sensor technologies
Emerging eHealth applications
Health monitoring, traffic characterization, and management
Future Network/Communications Infrastructures and Architectures for Healthcare
Energy Saving for Long Time Monitoring
Pervasive and ubiquitous computing on eHealth
MAC and Routing protocols design for WBANs
Practical Applications of e-Health
Intra and Inter WBAN communications
Storage and Display devices for eHealth
Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine
Distributed storage of WBANs data
Interference mitigation techniques in WBANs
QoS-mapping from Application level to Network and MAC levels
Cross-layer Designs for WBANs
QoS-oriented dynamic reconfiguration in WBANs
M-healthcare mobile social networks
Fault tolerant routing techniques in WBANs
Experimental prototypes and test-beds
Security and privacy concerns in WBANs
Data analytics for eHealth systems