CALL FOR PAPERS

 10th International Conference on Body Area Networks

BODYNETS 2015

28 – 30 September, 2015

Sydney, Australia

Past editions:  2014 – 2013 – 2012 – 2011 – 2010 – 2009 – 2008 – 2007-2006

SCOPE

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
   – Ambient intelligence
   – 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
   – 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

Application domains include, but not limited to, biomedical engineering, computer vision, defense, entertainment (e.g. computer games), human computer interaction, industrial design, interactive arts, Internet of things, logistics and transportation, smart buildings, physiological monitoring, prosthetics, robotics, smart garments, sports science, and vehicular networks.

In addition to the main track that covers general/mainstream topics, the BodyNets 2014 technical program will feature a series of special tracks and a couple of workshops that will focus on specific/emerging topics.

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

A proposal to organize a workshop should include the following information: (1) the title of the workshop, (2) name, affiliation and biographies of the organizer, (3) an abstract of no more than one page describing the aims of the workshop and the motivation for holding it and participating to it (target audience), (4) a workshop chair and a tentative list of participants / speakers, (5) the expected duration of the workshop, (6) a draft CFP of the workshop.

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.

Wireless Implantable Antennas, chaired by Yang Hao (Queen Mary College, University of London, UK), Karu Esselle (Macquarie University, Australia)

Human Body Communications (HBC) chaired by Yuichi Kado (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan), and Jianqing Wang, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Privacy, Security and Trust in Body Area Networks chaired by Shucheng Yu (University of Arkansas at

Little Rock, USA).

Antennas and Propagation in Body Area Networks chaired by Dirk Plettemeier (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany), Matti Hämäläinen, Oulu University, Finland), Jari Iinatti (Oulu University)

Body Area Nanonetworks chaired by Josep Miquel Jornet (The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA), Anna MariaVegni (University of Roma Tre, Italy), Massimiliano Pierobon University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Sara Pizzi (Universitá Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy), Valeria Loscrì (INRIA, France).

Unconventional Intrabody Communication, Enrico Natalizio (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, Boston, USA),Laura Galluccio (University of Catania, Italy)

Cloud-assisted Body Area Networks (CBAN or CABAN) chaired by Raffaele Gravina (University of Calabria, Italy), Junichi Suzuki (University of Massachusetts, USA)

Sensors and Algorithms for Human Motion Analysis and Classification chaired by Angelo Maria Sabatini (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)

Body Area NanoNETworks: Electromagnetic, Materials and Communications chaired by Valeria Loscri, (INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, France), Anna Maria Vegni (University of Roma Tre, Italy), Ladislau Matekovits (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Ildiko Peter (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

BAN Communications and Devices chaired by Mehmet Yuce (Monash University, Australia) and Jamil Y. Khan (University of Newcastle, Australia)

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 1 page

Papers must be submitted to EasyChair and must follow the ACM conference paper format. Please visit http://bodynets.org/2015/show/initial-submission for detailed submission instructions. The authors of regular and short papers will deliver oral presentations. The authors of poster/demo papers will deliver posters and/or system demonstrations.
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.

Important dates

Workshop, Special Track and Tutorials Proposals: March 31, 2015

Regular paper submission: June 1, 2015

Short, poster and demo paper submission: July 1, 2015

Notification for regular papers: July 31, 2015

Notification for short/poster/demo papers: July 31, 2015

Camera ready due: August 15, 2015
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair
Eryk Dutkiewicz, Macquarie University, Australia

PC Co-Chairs
Ren Ping Liu, CSIRO, Australia
Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts, USA
Qi Zhang, Aarhus University, Denmark
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy

Special Tracks Chair
Ladislau Matekovits, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Tutorials Chair
Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Workshops Chair
Mehran Abolhassan, University Technology Sydney, Australia

Publication Co-Chairs
Wei Ni, CSIRO, Australia
Matti Hämäläinen, University of Oulu, Finland

Publicity Co-Chairs
Raul Chavez-Santiago, Oslo University Hospital, Norway

Mehmet Yuce, Monash, University University, Australia

Web Chair
Peiyuan Qin, CSIRO, Australia

Conference Coordinator
Ruzanna Najaryan, EAI