[DMANET] RA-WERHA 2015 workshop (Deadline: October 15), Co-located with CCNC 2015, Jan. 9-12, Las Vegas, USA

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The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and
Deployment for Real-time and Healthcare Applications (RA-WERHA 2015)
(http://csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/RA-WERHA2015/main.html)
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To be held in conjunction with IEEE CCNC 2015,
Jan. 9-12, 2015, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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SCOPE

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 utilization 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 2015 RA-WERHA workshop.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

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 eHealth
• 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

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: October15, 2014
Acceptance notification: November 15, 2014
Camera-ready version: November 30, 2014

GENERAL CHAIRS

Soufiene Djahel, University College Dublin, Ireland
Rahim Kacimi, Paul Sabatier University, France
John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:

Nikki Cranley, University College Dublin, Ireland
Amit Pande, University of California Davis, USA
Riadh Dhaou, INPT/ENSEEIHT, France

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Imad Jawhar, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Nikos Komnino, City University London, UK
Zdenek Becvar, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Faouzi Kamoun, Zayed University, UAE
Amit Pande, University of California Davis, USA
Nadjib Ait Saadi, University of Paris-Est, France
Faycal Bouhafs, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Erdal Oruklu, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troyes, France
Hassine Moungla, University Paris Descartes, France
Thomas Zinner, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Nafaâ Jabeur, German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech), Oman
Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Dublin City University, Ireland
Kashif Kifayat, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University Paris Descartes, France
Zonghua Zhang, Institut Mines-Télécom/TELECOM Lille, France
Ahcene Bendjoudi, CERIST Research Center, Algeria
Celimuge Wu, University of Electro-communications, Japan
Dalil Moad, City Passenger, France
Omar Al Fandi, Zayed University, UAE
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, University of la Rochelle, France
Rachid Beghdad, University of Bejaia, Algeria
Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, University of Bourgogne, France
Yassine Hadjadj Aoul, IRISA, France
Philip Perry, University College Dublin, Ireland

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Dr. Soufiene Djahel
Research Fellow
Performance Engineering Lab
University College Dublin
http://csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/index.html

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