BASNet 2018 - 6th International Workshop on Body Area Sensor Networks (BASNet-18)

The 6th International Workshop on Body Area Sensor Networks (BASNet-18) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of Body Area Networks (BANs). BASNet-18 will be held in Porto, Portugal (8-11 May 2018) in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT-18).
Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/site/comsenselab/basnet-2...
SCOPE
The workshop provides a multi-disciplinary collaborative forum for researchers and practitioners to submit papers with novel ideas, innovative solutions, and research results related to the field of the Body Area Sensor Networks. The workshop also invites researchers to submit original work on sensors communication in Body Area Networks.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Wearable and implantable sensors
Bio-sensors communication
Sensors communication in Body Area Networks
Body Area Networks in Hospital environment
Body Area Networks for Medical Applications
Routing Layer protocols for Body Area Networks
MAC Layer protocols for Body Area Networks
Cross layer routing protocols for Body Area Networks
Body Area Networks and cloud computing
RFID tags for Body Area Networks
Security protocols for Body Area Networks
E-Health wireless applications
Body Area Networks used for patient health monitoring
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission due: 15 December, 2017.
Notification of acceptance: 15 February, 2018.
Camera-ready due: 5 March, 2018.
Workshop: 8-11 June, 2018.
SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2018 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2018 website (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/). The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=basnet2018.
The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date.
In case of any problem with submission, please contact the workshop organizers for assistance.
All workshops accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-c.... The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).
The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues at ANT'18.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Zahoor Ali Khan
PhD (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Higher Colleges of Technology
Fujairah, United Arab Emirates
www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan
Nadeem Javaid
PhD (University of Paris-Est, France)
COMSATS IIT
Islamabad, Pakistan
www.njavaid.com