IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services
17-20 September 2018 // Ostrava, Czech Republic

The 1st International Workshop on Quality of Service in eHealthcare

Organizers

Radek Martinek, Professor (Associate), AEEE Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Member, Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.
 

Homer Nazeran, Professor, Head of Laboratory Pervasive Health Technology, IEEE Senior Member, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, USA.
 

Miroslav Voznak, Professor, Head of Department of Telecommunications, IEEE Senior Member, Department of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.
 

He Wen, Professor (Associate), Hunan University, College of Electrical and Information Engineering, China.
 

Karel Tomala, Head of Data Service Inspection Unit, Department for North Moravian Region, Czech Telecommunication Office, Czech Republic.
 

Janusz Jezewski, Professor, Head of Biomedical Signal Processing Department, Deputy Director for Science, Institute of Medical Technology and Equipment, Zabrze, Poland.
 

Jaromir Novak, Chairman of the Council of the Czech Telecommunication Office, Prague, Czech Republic.
 

Shapour Jaberzadeh, Professor (Associate), Head of Non-invasive Brain Stimulation & Neuroplasticity Laboratory, University Monash, Australia.
 

Petr Koudelka, Data Service Inspection Unit, Department for North Moravian Region, Czech Telecommunication Office, Czech Republic.
 

Jan Zidek, Professor (Associate), Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.

 

About Czech Telecommunication Office

The Czech Telecommunication Office (“CTU”) was established on the basis of Act No. 127/2005 Coll., on Electronic Communications and on Amendment to Certain Related Acts (the Act on Electronic Communications) (the “Act”) as at 1 May 2005 as a central administrative body for the execution of state administration in matters set out in the Act, including market regulation and definition of the conditions for business activities in the areas of electronic communications and postal services. CTU execute role of a national independent regulator. Within its competence, CTU measures and evaluates QoS parameters of data networks in the case of control measurements on fixed and mobile networks.

Scope

The prime focus this workshop is on new challenges in network design, planning, management, operations and quality of service for eHealthcare solutions. These challenges are included by several recent technological developments such as: Software Defined Radio (SDR), Software Defined Networking (SDN), Digital Signal Processing, Cloud Networking, Big Data Networking, omnipresent virtualization of resources leading to Virtual Networks Operations (VNO), as well as the increased diversity of overlaid large-scale infrastructures associated Quality of Service.

The scope of workshop includes the following topics:

Emerging Topics in Network Planning and Operations for eHealth

  • Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
  • Digital Signal Processing (Channel Equalization, Biological Signal (Pre)Processing).
  • Visible Light Communications.
  • Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
  • Network Slicing, 5G Networks, Cloud Networking, Network Data Analytics, Peer to Peer Networking, New Networking Paradigms.

Traffic Measurements – Modeling and Network Planning Support Processes

  • Multiservice Traffic Measurement, Analysis, Characterization, Modeling, and Simulation.
  • Data collection and analysis, Methods / Tools for Traffic Measurements.
  • Network Monitoring and Anomaly Detection.
  • Methods and Tools, Multilayer Planning Process.
  • Planning of Optical, Access, NGN, LTE+, and 5G Networks, Network Management Support.

Network Design and Planning Methods for eHealth

  • Network Topology Design, Optimization at Different Layers.
  • End-to-End Service Performance Evaluation.
  • Quality of Service (QoS), Quality of Resilience, Quality of Experience (QoE) and SLA.
  • Network Interconnection & Peering.
  • Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks.
  • Network Resilience: Survivability, Availability, Dependability, Protection, Restoration, Energy Efficiency.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2018
Authors Notifications: July 10, 2018
Camera Ready submission: August 1, 2018

 

Accepted and duly presented workshop papers will be published in the IEEE Healthcom Conference Proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore, the IEEE digital repository (indexed in Scopus or Web of Science).