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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The 6<sup>th</sup> International Workshop on Body Area Sensor Networks (BASNet-18) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of Body Area Networks (BANs). BASNet-18
will be held in Porto, Portugal (8-11 May 2018) in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (ANT-18).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Workshop Website:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/comsenselab/basnet-2018/">https://sites.google.com/site/comsenselab/basnet-2018/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SCOPE</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The workshop provides a multi-disciplinary collaborative forum for researchers and practitioners to submit papers with novel ideas, innovative solutions, and research results related to the field of the Body
Area Sensor Networks. The workshop also invites researchers to submit original work on sensors communication in Body Area Networks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Wearable and implantable sensors</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bio-sensors communication</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sensors communication in Body Area Networks</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Body Area Networks in Hospital environment</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Body Area Networks for Medical Applications</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Routing Layer protocols for Body Area Networks</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">MAC Layer protocols for Body Area Networks</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cross layer routing protocols for Body Area Networks</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Body Area Networks and cloud computing</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">RFID tags for Body Area Networks</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Security protocols for Body Area Networks</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">E-Health wireless applications</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Body Area Networks used for patient health monitoring</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Submission due: 15 December, 2017.
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Notification of acceptance: 15 February, 2018.
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Camera-ready due: 5 March, 2018.</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Workshop: 8-11 June, 2018.</span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2018 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2018 website (<a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/</a>).
The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at:
<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=basnet2018">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=basnet2018</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register
for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission
due date.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In case of any problem with submission, please contact the workshop organizers for assistance.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All workshops accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted
on <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/">http://www.sciencedirect.com</a>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be
indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all
delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues at ANT'18.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt">WORKSHOP CHAIRS</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://web.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan/" target="_blank">Zahoor Ali Khan</a><br>
PhD (Dalhousie University, Canada)<br>
Higher Colleges of Technology<br>
Fujairah, United Arab Emirates<br>
<a href="http://www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan" target="_blank">www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.njavaid.com/" target="_blank">Nadeem Javaid</a><br>
PhD (University of Paris-Est, France)<br>
COMSATS IIT<br>
Islamabad, Pakistan<br>
<a href="http://www.njavaid.com/" target="_blank">www.njavaid.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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