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Call for Papers
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2010 International Workshop on Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks
(UBSN 2010)
http://sites.google.com/site/ubsn2010

In conjunction with
The 5th International Wireless Internet Conference
(WICON 2010)
http://www.wicon.org/
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Overview

Recently, there has been increased investigation into new types of wireless sensor
networks located on or around the human body, which are generally known as body
sensor networks (BSNs). Following continuous advances in wireless communication
technologies, there has been growing interest in the design, development and deployment
of BSN systems in applications for improving people's daily life, which has led to
an increased demand for interconnecting BSNs with other emerging wireless technologies,
such as RFID technology, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Zigbee, Bluetooth, WiBree,
video surveillance systems, WPAN, WLAN, the Internet, and cellular networks. With BSNs
being incorporated into these technologies, BSNs have become ubiquitous. As a result
of this, and due to an increased demand for advanced e-healthcare management systems
in recent years, the marketing opportunities for advanced consumer electronics and
related services have greatly increased. More and more autonomous and intelligent
applications which are closely integrated with a person's everyday life are being
generated. For example, by using BSNs to collect patient information, and by deploying
diverse wireless networking systems for enhanced diagnostic assistance and action
handling, better e-healthcare management systems can be designed for providing more
desirable services.

In this workshop, we solicit research papers (regular papers and posters) on hardware
for body sensors, system architectures, networking and communication protocols,
applications, testbeds and prototypes, biomedical sensor data processing and sensor
data management. In particular, we are interested in the following communication issues:

* Intra-BSN Communication: The term "intra-BSN communication" defines communications
directly related to the user (within radio coverage of about 2 meters), which consists
of two categories: (1) the communications amongst the body sensors, which are deployed
strategically on the human body, implanted inside the body, or attached within in the
person's clothing; (2) the communication between the body sensors and the portable
personal server, which typically can be a cell phone, PDA or headset.

* Inter-BSN communication: The term "inter-BSN communication" defines communications
between the personal server and one or more access points. The access point can be
deployed as a part of a home or work infrastructure, or strategically placed within
a dynamic environment for handling emergency situations. Inter-BSN communications
will interconnect BSNs with the wide range of networks which are easily accessible
in daily life.

* Beyond-BSN communication: Beyond-BSN communication is used to interconnect a BSN
with the outside world, which enhances the application possibilities and brings the
coverage / range of body sensor systems a step further via pervasive communication
technologies, such as the Internet and cellular networks.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together state-of-the-art research
contributions, tutorials, and position papers that address these key aspects of
Ubiquitous Body Sensor Networks. Original papers describing completed and unpublished
work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference/workshop are
solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* New applications of ubiquitous body-sensor networks, e.g., healthcare and consumer
electronics applications
* Remote health/fitness monitoring in ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g., location
and mobility issues
* Ambulatory monitoring (activity monitoring, fall detection, cardiac and wellbeing
monitoring) and BSN assisted rehabilitation, bio-motion, wellbeing analysis and
clinical applications
* Emerging engineering issues and wearable, implantable/ingestible sensor integration
and development platforms, e.g., new operating systems, middleware, etc.
* Scalable and flexible network architectures and deployments for ubiquitous body
sensor networks
* Advanced body sensor devices, e.g., novel bioelectrical, biochemical, biophysical,
and mechanical sensors
* Networking and data transmission issues for ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Integrating emerging wireless technologies with ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Integration with ambient sensors for personalized smart spaces and applications
* Link to environment sensing, smart dwellings, and home monitoring
* Standards for light-weight communication protocols and integration with heterogeneous
networks
* Advanced algorithms for ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g., routing, data
processing, packet scheduling
* Power efficient issues, e.g., low power RF transceivers, energy scavenging,
miniaturization, system integration
* Signal processing, context awareness and multi-sensory fusion
* MAC Protocols and QoS Designing for Intra-BSN Communication
* Mobile and multimedia supported ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Server side body sensor networks information processing, data mining, transient pattern
recognition, and long-term, predictive trend analysis
* Sensor data management issues for ubiquitous body sensor networks, e.g.,
publish-subscribe approach
* Query processing and optimization for ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Sensor data stream processing in ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Semantic Web technology enabled ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Adaptability and stability of ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Transactions and workflows in ubiquitous body sensor networks
* Information support, security, privacy, and fault tolerance issues for ubiquitous
body sensor networks

Important Dates:
* Submission Deadline: October 15, 2009 (EST)
* Acceptance Notice: November 15, 2009
* Final Manuscript: November 25, 2009
* Publication Date: March 1-3, 2010

Submission Instructions
Please submit your paper(s) in PDF format to:
* Min Chen, minchen@ece.ubc.ca
and
* Lei Shu, lei.shu@ieee.org

All submissions will be reviewed by the technical program committee and will be judged
by their technical merit and relevance to workshop.

For regular paper:
The page length limit is 9 pages in IEEE double column format pages (including figures,
tables, and references) with font size not smaller than 9 points.

For poster paper:
The posters may describe work in progress and offers an excellent opportunity for feedback
and discussions on early research. A maximum of TWO IEEE double column format pages
(including figures, tables, and references) with font size not smaller than 9 points.

Publication:
Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE/ACM (pending) International Conference Proceedings
Series and will be made available in IEEE/ACM (pending) Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
* Thanos Vasilakos, University of Thessaly, Greece
* Min Chen, University of British Columbia, Canada
* John Breslin, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

PUBLICITY CHAIRs
* Lei Shu, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland
* Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA

Technical Program Committee
# Victor Leng, University of British Columbia, Canada
# Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
# Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA
# Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA
# Liang Zhou, ENSTA, ParisTech, France
# Lei Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China
# William G. Scanlon, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
# Zhangbing Zhou, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Irleand
# Han-Chieh Chao, Ilan University, Taiwan
# Gearoid O Laighin, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
# Weiwei Fang, Beihang University, China
# Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK
# Tomoki Yoshihisa, Osaka University, Japan
# Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
# Tianji Li, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
# Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
# James Chang Wu Yu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
# Xiuzhen (Susan) Cheng, The George Washington University, USA
# Hung-Min Sun, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
# Yang Hao, Queen Mary University of London, UK
# Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada

More to be invited.