Wireless System Research Group

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE

Workshop Program (tentative)

8:45am - 9:00am Open remark

9:00am - 10:00am Keynote address "The New Personalized Medicine is inexpensive biosensors in a ubiquitous computing environment", Cliff Dacso, MD, director of the Abramson Center for the Future of Health, Methodist Hospital Houston, University of Houston [slides]

10:15 - 11:45am Technical Session 1 QoS

(Session Chair: Manikanden Balakrishnan, University of Houston, US)

1. IEEE 802.11 WLAN for medical-grade QoS,Kyung-Joon Park (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US) [paper presentation]
   
2. Robust Resource Management for Predictable Services in Wireless Healthcare, Cunqing Hua (Zhejiang University, CN); Rong Zheng (University of Houston, US) [paper presentation]
   
3. Robust Adaptive Frequency Hopping for Wireless Medical Telemetry Systems, Kyung-Joon Park (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Tae Rim Park (City University of New York, US); Christopher Schmitz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Lui Sha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US) [paper presentation]
   
4. End-to-End Delay Analysis of Wireless ECG over Cellular Networks, Man-Ki Yoon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Jung-Eun Kim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Kyungtae Kang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Kyung-Joon Park (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Min-Young Nam (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US); Lui Sha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, US) [paper presentation]
   

11:45 - 1:00am Lunch break

1:00 - 2:30pm Technical Session 2 Middleware and system design

(Session Chair:Selma Boumerdassi,Conservatoire National des Arts et Meers, FR)

1. Quality-of-Inference (QoINF)-Aware Context Determination in Assisted Living Environments, Nirmalya Roy (The University of Texas at Austin, US); Archan Misra (Telcordia Technologies, US); Sajal Das (The UniversityTexas at Arlington, US); Christine Julien (The University of Texas at Austin, US) [paper presentation]
   
2. A Distributed Cyper-based information Distillation and Control architecture for Wireless Healthcare System, Haiying Shen (Univeristy of Arkansas, US) [paper presentation]
   
3. Privacy policy enforcement for health information data access, Eunjin Jung (The University of Iowa, US); Faiz Currim (University of Iowa, US); Xin Xiao (University of Iowa, US); Insoon Jo (Seoul National University, KR) [paper presentation]
   
4. A Wireless Application for Constructing Hospital Contact Networks, Ted Herman (University of Iowa, US); Sriram Pemmaraju (The University of Iowa, US) [paper presentation]
   

2:45 - 4:15pm Panel discussion: Anytime anywhere health-care: Challenges of wireless networking for telemedicine", Panel Chair: Mung Chiang (Princeton University) [Slides (tar ball)]

4:15 - 5:45pm Technical Session 3 Hardware and experiences

(Session Chair: Nirmalya Roy, The University of Texas at Austin, US)

1. Application of IEC 80001 in Avoiding Pitfalls of Wireless LAN System Design, Steven Baker (Welch Allyn Medical Diagnostic Equipment Manufacturer, US) [paper presentation]
   
2. Low-power Electroencephalography Sensing Data RF Transmission: Hardware Architecture and Test, Fei Hu (University of Alabama, US) [paper presentation]
   
3. Implementation of Integrated Wireless Health Monitoring Network, Driss Benhaddou (University of Houston, US); Manikanden Balakrishnan (University of Houston, US); Xiaojing Yuan (University of Houston, US); Bao Quach (University of Houston, US)[paper presentation]
   
4. A Mobile Personal Electrocardiogram Monitoring System With Patient Location, Nouredinne Belgacem (Tlemcen university, DZ); Selma Boumerdassi (Conservatoire National des Arts et Méers, FR) [paper presentation]