MoWNet 2014 - FIRST WORKSHOP ON WIRELESS SOLUTIONS FOR HEALTHCARE APPLICATIONS

Recent evolutions in ICT technologies have paved the way to new applications in a wide range of areas. One of the fields that can benefit the most from the improvement in networking and computing capabilities falls into the healthcare domain. Several projects and research activities aim to lead the evolution from traditional health practices to advanced eHealth services. This includes the possibility to proceed to early diagnosis of patients (i.e., before even the patient reaches a hospital), to remote cares without the physical presence of doctors, and to several other applications that will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the medical interventions and the comfort of both patients and medical personnel. An interesting and particularly challenging subset of eHealth applications concerns mHealth services, for which typical mobility and wireless transmission problems are combined with medical constraints, e.g., sufficient quality for diagnostic purposes.
To foster the introduction of eHealth and mHealth services in the traditional medical practices, further work needs to be carried out in particular to guarantee the flawless transmission, through a resource-constrained environment as in wireless networks, of medical data, images, and videos in order to achieve the level of quality required by medical staff to promptly make correct diagnosis. Moreover, strong requirements in terms of data protection, secure transmissions and data privacy have to be fulfilled when dealing with sensitive information like medical data. Not to mention suitable network advances for an efficient, flexible and possibly backward compatible, exploitation of available resources over a mixture of wired and wireless technologies under the common IP-based infrastructure of the Next-Generation Networks.
The main aim of this workshop is to bring together representatives of academia, industry and healthcare to present recent advances in wireless solutions that can benefit the development of new eHealth and mHealth applications.
Workshop topics
- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- New eHealth and mHealth applications
- New medical procedures to improve the exploitation of eHealth solutions
- Remote diagnosis and telemedicine
- 3D/4D medical images and videos transmission
- Multiview video transmission
- Media adaptation in wireless transmissions
- Efficient and transparent multimedia transmission over a mixed wired and wireless environment
- Deployment of heterogeneous wireless networks in clinical environment
- Image and video coding, especially for compression of medical content
- Evaluation of QoE of medical videos and images
- Security, trust, and privacy in wireless/mobile communications
- Data protection
- Architecture solutions for emergency scenarios
- Heterogeneous networks
- Cross-layer communication, solutions and architectures
- Mobility management solutions
Important dates:
- Submission of papers: June 01, 2014
- Notification of authors: June 25, 2014
- Camera Ready copies: July 30, 2014
All accepted and presented workshop papers will be published in the MoWNet 2014 Proceedings and will be included on IEEExplore.
This workshop is an independent publication forum organized by the CONCERTO project, which is partially funded by the European Commission within the EU 7th Framework Program under grant agreement n° 288502.
Workshop Chairs:
Lorenzo Iacobelli
Thales Communications and Security, France
lorenzo.iacobelli-AT-thalesgroup.com
Maria Martini
Kingston University, UK
M.Martini-AT-kingston.ac.uk
Peter Amon
Siemens, Germany
p.amon-AT-siemens.com
Technical Program Committee:
Cyril Bergeron
Thales Communications and Security, France
cyril.bergeron-AT-thalesgroup.com
Ognen Ognenoski
Kingston University, UK
Ognen.Ognenoski-AT-kingston.ac.uk
Zunaira Babar
University of Southampton, UK
zb2g10-AT-ecs.soton.ac.uk
Gianmarco Panza
Cefriel, Italy
Gianmarco.Panza-AT-cefriel.com
Janne Vehkaperä
VTT, Finland
Janne.Vehkapera-AT-vtt.fi
Esa Piri
VTT, Finland
Esa.Piri-AT-vtt.fi
Gábor Fehér
BME, Hungary
feher-AT-tmit.bme.hu
László Bokor
BME, Hungary
bokorl-AT-hit.bme.hu
László István Tóth
BME, Hungary
tothl-AT-hit.bme.hu
Benoit Lecroart
Nec Technologies, France
Benoit.Lecroart-AT-nectech.fr
Dorin Panaitopol
Nec Technologies, France
Dorin.Panaitopol-AT-nectech.fr
Matteo Mazzotti
CNIT, Italy
mazzotti.matteo-AT-unibo.it
Simone Moretti
CNIT, Italy
simone.moretti6-AT-unibo.it
Sergio Cicalò
CNIT, Italy
sergio.cicalo-AT-unife.it
Velio Tralli
CNIT, Italy
velio.tralli-AT-unife.it