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

Call for papers

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