Bodynets

Call for Participation 6th International ICST Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets) Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 7- 8 November 2011 http://www.bodynets.org/

We are pleased to announce that the BodyNets 2011 Conference is open for participation. The advancement in sensing, embedded computing, and wireless communication has accelerated the progress of Body Area Networks (BodyNets). It integrates and deploys wireless sensors, RFID tags, and other pervasive devices within and around human bodies for constructing diverse and practical systems for smart health and wellbeing, human computer interaction, and provision of entertainment. This conference will explore the challenges and technical approaches to designing, building, and deploying BodyNets. The conference aims to establish a forum to exchange ideas, discuss practices, raise awareness, and to share cutting edge technology and experiences among researchers and practitioners in the field of computer science, biomedical engineering, medicine, and other disciplines in both academia and industry. Highlights include prominent Keynotes of Prof. John Stankovic (University of Virginia) who will deliver a speech on Solutions Towards of Scale and Lifetime in BSN’s and Dr. Majeed Sarrafzadeh (UCLA Wireless Health Institute) will deliver a speech on End-to-End Research and Innovation.

Organization Committees

Steering Committee Chairs

Athanasios V. Vasilakos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy Honorary Chair

Jiaguang Sun, NSF, China General Chairs

Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, China Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Technical Program Chairs

Roozbeh Jafari, UT Dallas, USA Chenyang Lu, Washington University, USA

Industry Co-Chair

Ming Gu, Tsinghua Univ., China Financial/Registration Chair

Gergely Nagy, ICST Local Organization Chairs Local Co-Chair

Zhiguo Wan and Xibin Zhao, Tsinghua Univ., China Local Coordinator

Lin Cui, Tsinghua Univ., China Workshop/Tutorial Chair

Qian Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong Program Track Chairs Embedded Medical Devices

Insup Lee, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA Privacy and Security

Jinsong Han, Xian Jiaotong University, China System and Applications

D K Arvind, Univ. of Edinburg, UK Yong He, Tsinghua University, China Networking and Communication

Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Hongbo Jiang, HUST, China Wearable Computing

Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC, USA

Yunhuai Liu, CAS, China Demo Chair

Hassan Ghasemzadeh, UT Dallas, USA Poster Chairs

Min Chen, Seoul National Univ., Korea Xiaoxia Huang, CAS, China Publication Chair

Foad Dabiri, UCLA, USA Publicity Chairs

Mo Li, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore Xue Liu, Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln, USA Kebin Liu, Tsinghua Univ., China Web Chair

Lei Yang, HKUST, Hong Kong

For further details about Bodynets please see: http://www.bodynets.org/ To register for the conference please visit: http://www.bodynets.org/registration Looking forward to welcoming you in Beijing on 7-8 November, 2011!