Call for Papers

10th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets 2015), September 28–30, 2015, Sydney, Australia

BodyNets 2015 aims to provide a world-leading and unique opportunity for bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines to plan, analyse, design, build, deploy and experiment with/on body area networks (BANs).
TOPICS

We are soliciting high-quality original papers in the following topics (but not limited to):
1. Wearable Computing
Pervasive user interface
Context and situation awareness
Augmented reality
Sensory augmentation
Motion detection and activity recognition
User modeling and personalization
2. Embedded Devices and Medical Applications
High-confidence medical devices
Integration of medical devices with healthcare systems
Medical device plug-and-play
Assistive technologies for independent aging
Pervasive health care and patient monitoring
New medical diagnostics and treatments
Ambient assisted living
Virtual hospitals
3. Communications and Networking
Various types of BANs; e.g, in-body, on-body and around-body networks
Signal/information processing and communication models in BANs
BAN architectures and protocols
Power-efficient communications
Wireless energy transfer
Delay-tolerance, fault-tolerance and reliability in BANs
Cloud computing and BANs
Cognitive networks for medical bands
4. Systems and Applications - Ambient Intelligence
Sensing and actuation in BANs
Software engineering and systems engineering for BANs
Modeling, simulations and empirical experiments
Design and performance issues
Tools, testbeds and deployment issues
Wireless-to-bio interface/transduction
Standardization
In addition to the main track that covers general/mainstream topics, the BodyNets 2015 technical program will feature a series of special tracks.
CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACKS PAPERS

In addition to the regular track that covers general/mainstream topics, BodyNets 2015 features several special tracks that focus on specific, emerging or underrepresented topics. All special tack papers will be peer-reviewed with the same criteria and quality standard used in the regular track. All accepted special track papers will be included as conference papers in the proceedings.
ST1: Wireless Implantable Antennas (WIAN)
chaired by Yang Hao (Queen Mary College, University of London, UK), Karu Esselle (Macquarie University, Australia)
ST2: Human Body Communications (HBCM)
chaired by Yuichi Kado (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
ST3: Privacy, Security and Trust in Body Area Networks (PSTB)
chaired by Shucheng Yu (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA), Sanjay Jha (University of New South Wales)
ST4: Antennas and Propagation in Body Area Networks (APBN)
chaired by Dirk Plettemeier (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany), Matti Hämäläinen, (Oulu University, Finland), Jari Iinatti (Oulu University, Finland)
ST5: Unconventional Intrabody Communication (UNIC)
chaired by Enrico Natalizio (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, Boston, USA),Laura Galluccio (University of Catania, Italy)
ST6: Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks (CBAN)
chaired by Raffaele Gravina (University of Calabria, Italy), Junichi Suzuki (University of Massachusetts, USA)
ST7: Sensors and Algorithms for Human Motion Analysis and Classification (SAHM)
chaired by Angelo Maria Sabatini (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
ST8: Body Area NanoNETworks: Electromagnetic, Materials and Communications (BANN)
chaired by Valeria Loscri, (INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, France), Anna Maria Vegni (University of Roma Tre, Italy), Ildiko Peter (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Ladislau Matekovits (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
More Special Tracks may be available at a later date.
For more information please visit the conference website.
PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit papers in the following categories:
Regular papers: Up to 7 pages
Short papers: Up to 4 pages
Poster and demo papers: Up to 1page
Papers must follow the ACM conference paper format. ACM Templates are available at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must be uploaded to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bodynets2015
Important dates
Full Paper Submission deadline: 1 June 2015
Short Papers and Posters deadline: 1 July 2015
Notification and Registration opens: 31 July 2015
Camera-ready deadline: 15 August 2015
PUBLICATION

All accepted paper will be published by ACM (pending). Selected papers will be considered for publication in leading ISI-impacted journals. Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more.