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[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message]<br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>2010 International Workshop on Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks (UBSN 2010)<br>http://sites.google.com/site/ubsn2010<br> <br>In conjunction with<br>The 5th International Wireless Internet Conference<br>(WICON 2010)<br>http://www.wicon.org/<br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br> <br>Submission deadline: 15 Oct 2009<br> <br>OVERVIEW:<br> <br>Recently, there has been increased investigation into new types of wireless<br>sensor networks located on or around the human body, which are generally<br>known as body sensor networks (BSNs). Following continuous advances in<br>wireless communication technologies, there has been growing interest in the<br>design, development and deployment of BSN systems in applications for<br>improving people's daily life, which has led to an increased demand for<br>
interconnecting BSNs with other emerging wireless technologies, such as RFID<br>technology, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Zigbee, Bluetooth, WiBree,<br>video surveillance systems, WPAN, WLAN, the Internet, and cellular networks.<br>With BSNs being incorporated into these technologies, BSNs have become<br>ubiquitous. As a result of this, and due to an increased demand for advanced<br>e-healthcare management systems in recent years, the marketing opportunities<br>for advanced consumer electronics and related services have greatly<br>increased. More and more autonomous and intelligent applications which are<br>closely integrated with a person's everyday life are being generated. For<br>example, by using BSNs to collect patient information, and by deploying<br>diverse wireless networking systems for enhanced diagnostic assistance and<br>action handling, better e-healthcare management systems can be designed for<br>providing more desirable services.<br>In this workshop, we sol
icit research papers (regular papers and posters) on<br>hardware for
body sensors, system architectures, networking and<br>communication protocols, applications, testbeds and prototypes, biomedical<br>sensor data processing and sensor data management. In particular, we are<br>interested in the following communication issues:<br>* Intra-BSN Communication: The term "intra-BSN communication" defines<br>communications directly related to the user (within radio coverage of about<br>2 meters), which consists of two categories: (1) the communications amongst<br>the body sensors, which are deployed strategically on the human body,<br>implanted inside the body, or attached within in the person's clothing; (2)<br>the communication between the body sensors and the portable personal server,<br>which typically can be a cell phone, PDA or headset.<br>* Inter-BSN communication: The term "inter-BSN communication" defines<br>communications between the personal server and one or more access points.<br>The access point can be deployed as a part of a home or work
infrastructure,<br>or strategically placed within a dynamic environment for handling emergency<br>situations. Inter-BSN communications will interconnect BSNs with the wide<br>range of networks which are easily accessible in daily life.<br>* Beyond-BSN communication: Beyond-BSN communication is used to interconnect<br>a BSN with the outside world, which enhances the application possibilities<br>and brings the coverage / range of body sensor systems a step further via<br>pervasive communication technologies, such as the Internet and cellular<br>networks.<br> <br>The objective of this workshop is to bring together state-of-the-art<br>research contributions, tutorials, and position papers that address these<br>key aspects of Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks. Original papers describing<br>completed and unpublished work not currently under review by any other<br>journal/magazine/conference/workshop are solicited. Topics of interest<br>include, but are not limited to:<br> 
;<br>* New applications of ubiquitous body-sensor networks, e.g., hea
lthcare and<br>consumer electronics applications<br>* Remote health/fitness monitoring in ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g.,<br>location and mobility issues<br>* Ambulatory monitoring (activity monitoring, fall detection, cardiac and<br>wellbeing monitoring) and BSN assisted rehabilitation, bio-motion, wellbeing<br>analysis and clinical applications<br>* Emerging engineering issues and wearable, implantable/ingestible sensor<br>integration and development platforms, e.g., new operating systems,<br>middleware, etc.<br>* Scalable and flexible network architectures and deployments for ubiquitous<br>body sensor networks<br>* Advanced body sensor devices, e.g., novel bioelectrical, biochemical,<br>biophysical, and mechanical sensors<br>* Networking and data transmission issues for ubiquitous body sensor<br>networks<br>* Integrating emerging wireless technologies with ubiquitous body sensor<br>networks<br>* Integration with ambient sensors for personalized smart spaces and<br>a
pplications<br>* Link to environment sensing, smart dwellings, and home monitoring<br>* Standards for light-weight communication protocols and integration with<br>heterogeneous networks<br>* Advanced algorithms for ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g., routing,<br>data processing, packet scheduling<br>* Power efficient issues, e.g., low power RF transceivers, energy<br>scavenging, miniaturization, system integration<br>* Signal processing, context awareness and multi-sensory fusion<br>* MAC Protocols and QoS Designing for Intra-BSN Communication<br>* Mobile and multimedia supported ubiquitous body sensor networks<br>* Server side body sensor networks information processing, data mining,<br>transient pattern recognition, and long-term, predictive trend analysis<br>* Sensor data management issues for ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g.,<br>publish-subscribe approach<br>* Query processing and optimization for ubiquitous body sensor networks<br>* Sensor data stream processing
in ubiquitous body sensor networks<br>* Semantic Web technology enab
led ubiquitous body sensor networks<br>* Adaptability and stability of ubiquitous body sensor networks<br>* Transactions and workflows in ubiquitous body sensor networks<br>* Information support, security, privacy, and fault tolerance issues for<br>ubiquitous body sensor networks<br> <br>Important Dates:<br>* Submission Deadline: October 15, 2009 (EST)<br>* Acceptance Notice: November 15, 2009<br>* Final Manuscript: November 25, 2009<br>* Publication Date: March 1-3, 2010<br> <br>Submission Instructions<br>Please submit your paper(s) in PDF format to:<br>* Min Chen, minchen@ece.ubc.ca and Lei Shu, lei.shu@ieee.org<br> <br>All submissions will be reviewed by the technical program committee and will<br>be judged by their technical merit and relevance to workshop.<br> <br>For regular paper:<br>The page length limit is 9 pages in IEEE double column format pages<br>(including figures, tables, and references) with font size not smaller than<br>9 points.<br> 
;<br>For poster paper:<br>The posters may describe work in progress and offers an excellent<br>opportunity for feedback and discussions on early research. A maximum of TWO<br>IEEE double column format pages (including figures, tables, and references)<br>with font size not smaller than 9 points.<br> <br>Publication:<br>Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE/ACM (pending) International<br>Conference Proceedings Series and will be made available in IEEE/ACM<br>(pending) Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI.<br> <br>SPECIAL ISSUES:<br>Selected papers will be published in a SI of International Journal of<br>Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS)<br>and a SI of International Journal of Sensor Network (IJSNet).<br> <br>WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br> <br>WORKSHOP CHAIRS<br>* Thanos Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece<br>* Min Chen, University of British Columbia, Canada<br>* John Breslin, National University of Irela
nd, Galway, Ireland<br> <br>PUBLICITY CHAIRs<br>* Lei Shu, Digit
al Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland<br>* Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA<br> <br>Technical Program Committee<br># Victor C.M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada<br># Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan<br># Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland<br># Han-Chieh Chao, Ilan University, Taiwan<br># Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway<br># Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA<br># Wenbing Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China<br># William G. Scanlon, Queen's University, Belfast, UK<br># Xiaodong Lin, University of Ontario, Canada<br># Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan<br># Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA<br># Tai-hoon Kim, Hannam University, South Korea<br># Zhangbing Zhou, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Irleand<br># Liang Zhou, ENSTA, ParisTech, France<br># Lei Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China<br># Gearoid O Laighin, National
University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland<br># Weiwei Fang, Beihang University, China<br># Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK<br># Tomoki Yoshihisa, Osaka University, Japan<br># Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China<br># Tianji Li, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland<br># Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Kyung Hee University, South Korea<br># James Chang Wu Yu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan<br># Xiuzhen (Susan) Cheng, The George Washington University, USA<br># Hung-Min Sun, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan<br># Yang Hao, Queen Mary University of London, UK<br># Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada<br># John Nelson, University of Limerick, Ireland<br># Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan<br># Jinlei Jiang, Tsinghua University, China<br># Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia<br># Hui Chen, Virginia State University, USA<br># Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, South Korea<br># William Zhu, University of Auckland, New Zealand<br># Choong Seon H
ong, Kyung Hee University, South Korea<br># Jinli Cao, La Trobe Unive
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