Technical Program of WiPH 2009

Time Table

08:30 - 08:55                      On-site Registration

08:55 - 09:00                      Opening speech

09:00 - 10:30                      Session 1: Body Sensor Networks

10:30 - 11:00                      Coffee break (incl. demos)

11:00 - 12:30                      Session 2: Wireless Pervasive Healthcare

12:30 - 13:45                      Lunch break (maybe incl. demos)

13:45 - 15:15                      Session 3: Wireless Sensor Networks

15:15 - 15:45                      Coffee break (incl. demos)

15:45 - 17:15                      Session 4: Other topics and Applications

17:15 - 17:20                      Closing remarks                     

17:20 - 18:00                       Networking                     

Technical sessions

WiPH-01: Body Sensor Networks

Date and Time: Tue, 31 Mar 2009, 9:00 -10:30
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09:00-09:30    Invited talk:  Body Sensor Networks - from Healthcare to Elite Sport Performance Monitoring

Prof. Guangzhong Yang, Imperial College London, UK

09:30-09:50    Quality of Service for IEEE 802.15.4-based Wireless Body Sensor Networks

Thomas Falck, Jose Javier Garcia Philips Research Europe

09:50-10:10    Body Area Network for Monitoring Autonomic Nervous System Responses 

Lindsay Brown, Bernard Grundlehner, Jef van de Molengraft, Julien Penders and Bert Gyselinckx, Stichting IMEC Nederland

10:10-10:30    Customizing Sensor Nodes and Software for Individual Pervasive Health Applications

Peter Langendoerfer, Frank Vater and Krzysztof Piotrowski IHP, Im Technologiepark 25, Germany,

WiPH-02: Wireless Pervasive Healthcare

Date and Time: Tue, 31 Mar 2009, 11:00 -12:30
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11:00-11:30    Invited talk:  Body-centric Antennas and Propagation for Pervasive Healthcare Applications

Prof. Yang Hao, Queen Marry, University of  London, UK

11:30-11:50    Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks

Thomas Lindh, Ibrahim Orhan School of Technology and Health KTH Sweden

11:50-12:10    Pervasive Wireless-Sensor-Networks for Home Healthcare Need Automatic Reasoning

Davide Merico, Alessandra Mileo and Roberto Bisiani NOMADIS Lab., University of Milano-Bicocca, viale Sarca, 336/14, I-20126 Milan MI, Italy.

12:10-12:30    Server-assisted Context-Dependent Pervasive Wellness Monitoring

Archan Misra, Ben Falchuk, Shoshana Loeb Advanced Technology Services Telcordia Technologies Piscataway, NJ, USA

WiPH-03: Wireless Sensor Networks

Date and Time: Tue, 31 Mar 2009, 13:45 -14:55
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13:45-14:15    Invited talk:  WSN Deployment in Practice

Luis Redondo

14:15-14:35    An Overview of Development Problems in WSNs

A. Prayati, F. Kerasiotis, C. Antonopoulos, S. Giannoulis, T. Stoyanova, G. Papadopoulos Research and Innovation Center in Information,Communication, and Knowledge Technologies -ISI, Greece Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece

14:35-14:55    A.MO.R : An Adaptive Routing Mechanism for  WSN Health Applications

S. Giannoulis, A. Prayati, C. Antonopoulos, G. Papadopoulos, Research and Innovation Center in Information,Communication, and Knowledge Technologies -Industrial Systems Institute, Greece

14:55-15:15    µSWN Interconnection to External Networks for Healthcare Applications

Agnius Liutkevicius, Arunas Vrubliauskas, Egidijus Kazanavicius, Aggeliki Prayati Real Time Computing Systems Centre, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

WiPH-04: Other Topics and Applications

Date and Time: Tue, 31 Mar 2009, 15:45 -17:15
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15:45-16:15    Invited talk:  The Long Jump for BANs ¨C Crossing the First Metre

Richard McPartland, Toumaz Technology Ltd, Oxfordshire, UK

16:15-16:35    Performance Evaluation of a ZigBee-based Medical Sensor Network

Helena Fernandez-Lopez, Pedro Macedo, Jos¨¦ Afonso, J. H. Correia Ricardo Simoes  Industrial Electronics Engineering Department University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal; Institute of Polymers and Composites University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

16:35-16:55    A Wireless Network Scheme of Fetal Monitoring

Ruoya Yao, Bing Liu, Xiaochen You, Wusun Chen Department of Research & Development Edan Instruments, Inc.  Shenzhen, China

16:55-17:15    Smart-Clothing Wireless Flex Sensor Belt Network for FoetalHealth Monitoring

Luis M. Borges, Norberto Barroca, Fernando J. Velez Antonio S. Lebres Instituto de Telecomunicaçoes ¨C DEM, Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal; Unidade de Detecçao Remota - Departamento de Fisica Universidade da Beira Interior Covilha, Portugal