Special Issue CFP - Journal of Communications

Special Issue on

Wireless Aspects of Telehealth

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Telehealth is the use of electronic information and communication technology to deliver health and medical information and services over large and small distances. Broadband wireless services available today, along with more powerful and convenient handheld devices, will enable a transformational change in health management and healthcare with the introduction of real-time monitoring and timely responses to a wide array of patient needs. Further, a network of low-cost sensors and wireless systems help in creating constantly vigilant and pervasive monitoring capability at home and at work. The goal of this issue is to bring together the recent research efforts in this growing field, including standards, system architectures, propagation models, and lower layer protocols for body area networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

· Simulation, analytical modeling, and measurements of body area networks (BANs)

· QoS provision and differentiation, security and fault tolerance issues in BANs

· Protocols and algorithms for the PHY, MAC and Network layer

· Data aggregation and fusion algorithms for in-network information processing

· Integration of BANs with heterogeneous networks

· Antenna design and channel models for in- and on-body signal propagation

· Near field communication (e.g., capacitive, electromagnetic, and inductive) and implantable systems

· Multimedia coding and mobile computing

· Biosignal processing and pattern classification

· Embedded decision support systems

· Sustainable, Harvesting-aware BSNs and PANs (Personal Area Networks)

· Wireless body based communication

· Design methodologies, tools and formal methods

· Biosignal compression and power-aware signal processing

The Original, unpublished research contributions, position papers, review, and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers should be formatted according to JCM guidelines (http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/authorguide.html). Authors should submit their complete manuscript via EDAS according to the following timetable:

             Manuscript Submission

             First Review cycle

             Second Review cycle

             Final Manuscript Due

             Publication

Sept. 30, 2011

Dec. 30, 2011

Jan. 30, 2012

Mar. 1, 2012

2nd Quarter, 2012

Guest Editorial Board

Prof. Aravind Kailas

Dept. of Elect. and Comput. Eng., University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

Prof. Joel Rodriguez

Department of Informatics, University of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal

Prof. Min Chen

Comput. Sci. and Eng., Seoul National University,, Seoul, Korea

Prof. Sandeep Gupta

School of Comput., Inf., and Decision Syst. Eng., Arizona State University, Temple, AZ

Prof. Claudio I. Estevez

Elect. and Comput. Eng., University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Dr. A. Pantelopulous

West Wireless Health Institute, San Diego, CA, USA

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