Electromagnetic fields from low frequency to millimeter wave are presenting lots of interests for biomedical applications. Among them is emerging the possibility to non-invasively investigate the living at various levels from tissue/organ to cellular, with the objective to early diagnose diseases and improve the efficiency of prognostic and therapies. This workshop will consequently address the...

Today, satellite communication networks are being integrated into the infrastructure of modern Terrestrial communication networks and becoming popular for the delivery of educational content and data, as well as education-centric services, including information, tele-conferencing, entertainment, or “edutainment” services. With fresh demand for new services and applications, it is becoming essen...

Passive monitoring utilizing distributed wireless sniffers is an effective technique to monitor activities in wireless infrastructure networks for fault diagnosis, resource management and critical path analysis. Trade-offs exist in the completeness of information captured versus the deployment and operational cost of a passive monitor system. In this paper, we introduce a quality of monitoring ...

The use of directional antenna in wireless ad hoc networks potentially increases simultaneous communication by directing the transmitting and receiving beams towards the receiver and transmitter node as compared to omni-directional antenna, where nodes in the vicinity of a communication are kept silent. However, in order to implement effective directional MAC protocol using directional antenna,...

This paper introduces a novel approach for considering the Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) in a multi-rate DS-CDMA wireless network supporting non realtime (NRT) communication. The allocated bit rate obeys to a user-centric approach by introducing a non-satisfaction user probability that has to be maintained below its targeted value while still keeping the best exploitation of the maximum ava...

Based on the user-centric paradigm for next generation networks, this paper describes a ubiquitous mobile healthcare (uHealth) system based on the ISO/IEEE 11073 personal health data (PHD) standards (X73) and cloud computing techniques. A number of design issues associated with the system implementation are outlined. The system includes a middleware on the user side, providing a plug-and-play e...

This paper proposes a context-aware information delivery system (CAIDS) using a UMTS Release 5 architecture and a wireless LAN. We present the concept and the system architecture of CAIDS, discuss the disposition of functional modules using the network-centric approach and clarify the CAIDS can provide the users with context-aware information delivery services including context-aware personal c...

Recognizing human activities in their daily living enables the development and widely usage of human-centric applications, such as health monitoring, assisted living, etc. Traditional activity recognition methods often rely on physical sensors (camera, accelerometer, gyroscope, etc.) to continuously collect sensor readings, and utilize pattern recognition algorithms to identify user's activitie...