International Journal of Distributed Sensor Network

SI: Advances in Multimedia Sensor Networks for Health-Care and Related Applications
Call for Papers

Now-a-days, multimedia sensor, services and technologies play an important role in seamlessly providing and managing health, sports and other services to anyone, anywhere and anytime. Media sensors are usually equipped with cameras, microphones, and other devices that produce media (audio, video, image and text) content and services. Such services and technologies facilitate caregiver and related professionals to have immediate access to required information for efficient decision making. Since media sensing technology development is growing, many research opportunities are emerging to unveil in a broad spectrum of application domains.
This special issue invites high-quality unpublished research articles on media sensing technologies, research concepts and methods for health care, sports and other novel applications - articulating new perspectives highlights, open issues and challenges. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
• Cloud media sensing for health-care and sports
• Multimedia signal acquisition based on compressive sensing
• Electronic platforms for health-care applications
• Wireless communication with/within swarms of implantable devices.
• Innovative circuits for communication with medical instrumentation
• Media sensing for serious games
• Resource allocation in multimedia health care
• Media sensor-based voice detection
• Bio-metric authentication for media health-care applications
• Media sensor data aggregation
• Multimedia enhanced learning, training and simulation for health
• QoS/QoE for media sensor-based applications
• Data fusion in multimedia sensor network
• Security and privacy in media sensor network
• Emerging media sensing protocols, surveys, applications and new research approaches

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/guidelines/. Cfp can be found: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/si/345975/cfp/ Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due October 17, 2014
First Round of Reviews January 9, 2015
Publication Date March 6, 2015

Lead Guest Editor

M. Shamim Hossain, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; mshossain (at)ksu.edu.sa

Guest Editors

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia; sakib(at)iium.edu.my

Stefan Goebel, Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM), Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; stefan.goebel(at)kom.tu-darmstadt.de

Shawon M. Rahman, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Hawaii-Hilo, Hilo, HI 96720, USA; SRahman(at)Hawaii.edu

Manzur Murshed, School of Information Technology, Faculty of Science, Federation University Australia (Monash), Gippsland Campus Churchill Vic 3842, Australia, manzur.murshed(at)federation.edu.au