Speaker: Prof. Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Paris Descartes, LIPADE Laboratory, France

Abstract: The  Wireless  Body  Area  Network  (WBAN)  emerges  into  the  mainstream  of  the  medical  implant communication  services,  where  sets of  sensors and actuators are embedded/attached to  the human body  in  order  to  provide  various  services.  These  services  include  continuous  & remote health  monitoring  with real-time  updates  of  medical  records,  computer  assisted  rehabilitation,  early  detection  of  medical conditions,  artificial  immune  system  creation,  or  paralyzed  muscle  stimulation.  The embedded/attached  sets  of  sensors  and  actuators  in  the  human  body  are  designed  and  configured such that they collect the desired physiological data related to this individual without regard to the time and location, and whether the body is moving or still.
The new field of Wireless Body Area Networks WBAN requires a high level of security, privacy and reliability to make them viable. Moreover, in order to improve the system lifetime, it is essential to ensure that the communication between the mounted sensor/actuator nodes, wearable relay nodes and sink/controller node takes place in the right way. In WBAN, the dynamic nature of the human body, complexity of the human  tissues  structure  and  body shape give variation to the traditional radio channel making difficult the design and the development of lightweight and context-aware communication protocols  that  are  able  to  reduce  energy  consumption, and packet loss rate while achieving a reasonable/acceptable trade-off between reliability, cost and efficiency. Therefore, this talk will give an overview of Wireless BAN challenges and solutions in designing energy efficient and secure Wireless Body Area Networks for remote healthcare monitoring services. 

Bio:
Ahmed Mehaoua, Ph.D.
Full Professor, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Paris Descartes, France
Head of the Multimedia Networking & Security Department, LIPADE Laboratory, Paris
Vice-chair of the Scientific Council, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Univ. of Paris
WCU Distinguished Visiting Professor, POSTECH, Division of ITCE, Korea

Ahmed MEHAOUA is a Full Professor of Computer Communication in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Paris Descartes, France. He is currently a visiting professor at the Division of IT convergence Engineering, POSTECH University, Korea, where he is conducting research on Wireless Healthcare Systems and Applications. He is also the Head of the Multimedia Networking and Security Department at the LIPADE, a governmental computer science research center in Paris, France. He is the Vice President of the Scientific Council and the Director of the post-graduate studies on Computer Science of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Paris Descartes. Prior to join University  of Paris, he  was  an  associate  professor  at the University  of Versailles, France,  where he founded and led the Multimedia and Wireless  Networking Laboratory. From 1998 to 2011, he was with the University of Cambridge, UK, as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Center for Communications Systems Research (CCSR), an University of Cambridge and Hitachi Telecom Europe joint R&D center. From 1995 to 1998, he was with the Computer Science Research Institute of Montreal, Canada, and was involved in various R&D projects on telecommunication System Management, and Quality of Service Management in broadband networks with Ericsson & Bell Canada. His research interests include security and resource management in Wireless Medical Sensor Networks, Wireless Area Body Networking (WBAN) for medical and health applications, and Quality of Service (QoS) optimization for audiovisual communications.  His  research has  been  supported  by  government  and  industry funded projects such as the European Commission,  French Ministry of Education  and  Research (ANR), CNRS, THALES, Thomson, Siemens, Ericsson and Orange Labs. among others. He published more than 120 papers on refereed journals and conferences and he served on various program committees of conferences in computers and communications (Globecom, ICC, HealthCom, PIMRC, LCN, VTC, WCNC, …).

时间：7月8日 周一 15:00pm
地点：浙江大学玉泉校区曹光彪东楼一楼则通室
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