Date and time: 11.30 - 12.30, Friday 18th May, 2012
Venue: 10.08.04 (Building 10, Level 8, Room 4)
Abstract:
The number of operational mobile subscribers is expected to pass the 6 billion mark by mid 2012 and the number of wearable wireless sensors is expected to grow to 400 million by the year 2014. Such a tremendous growth in the mobile space will result in an increasing number of mobile-based applications deployments, such as: Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, Electronic-Health (eHealth), and Mobile-Health (mHealth). These emerging mobile applications will require 3G and 4G mobile networks for biomedical data transport, including establishing, maintaining, and transmitting health-related information, research, education, and training.
The capabilities of Smartphone platforms will play major roles in driving the practicality of mHealth applications, which are expected to impact prevention and treatment methods in diverse medical fields. This talk opens the concept of Mobile Health (mHealth) from the biomedical applications, Quality of Service (QoS), security, and cloud computing perspectives.
About the speaker:
Sasan Adibi (BS'95, MS'99, MS'05, PhD'10, IEEE SM’11) has a PhD degree in Communication and Information Systems from University of Waterloo, Canada and the recipient of the best PhD thesis award from the IEEE Society (IEEE WoWMoM 2010). His current research interests include the design and implementation of the next generation wireless and mobile applications in the health-care (mHealth and eHealth). He has an extensive research background mostly in the areas of Quality of Service (QoS) and Security. He is the first author of +45 journal/conference/book chapter/white paper publications and is a co-editor of two books in the areas of 4th Generation Mobile Networks and QoS and an inventor/co-inventor of 4 patents in the areas of Health Informatics. He also has strong industry experiences, having worked in a number of high-tech companies, including: Nortel Networks, Siemens Canada, Research In Motion (RIM, The BlackBerry Provider), and Huawei Technologies, Canada. He is the co-founder and managing director of Cyber Journals and serving as Cyber Journals’ Health Informatics Associate Editor. He is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Business IT and Logistics.
Seminar Organisation
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