A Call for Papers is now open for the Special Issue on Public Health Assessment of Impact of Heterogeneous Wireless Systems in Nonionizing Radiation Exposure in the open access journal BioMed Research International (formerly titled Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, IF 2.706 according to 2013 Journal Citation Reports released by Thomson Reuters).
Call for papers is attached, and can be found online here: http://www.hindawi.com/
The aim of this special issue is to analyze the potential health impact that a number of emerging wireless technologies have in relation to exposure to nonionizing radiofrequency fields. The strong growth of mobile technology, mainly fourth generation systems with a very high number of hot spots and femtocells, the introduction of large wireless sensor networks in order to implement smart city environments, and the extension of wireless coverage to new scenarios, such as public transportation systems, will lead to a new distribution of RF fields. Novel demands for interconnection will lead to the integration of multiple small scale transceivers, as well as wearable wireless sensors, with new dosimetric scenarios to be analyzed. Exposure times will potentially increase, as well as the use of more spectral content, especially in the microwave spectrum. Detailed analysis and consideration of the new heterogeneous wireless ecosystem as well as the new scenarios in which these systems will be operating require detailed multidisciplinary analysis in order to provide adequate assessment and propose comprehensive exposure guidelines, taking into account extended time exposure periods, new location of wireless sources in the human body, more intensive spectral usage, and hence impact on public health due to nonionizing RF exposure.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Modelling tools for determination of exposure limit levels
Multisystem exposure impact and analysis
Identification of RF hotspots and sensible regions
Impact of wireless sensor networks and body area network devices
Estimation of exposure impact in dense wireless traffic environments and femtocell/microcell scenarios
Embarked wireless systems in public transports
Exposure in work related environments and new sources of nonionizing RF fields
Novel methods of SAR estimation and calculation
Measurement methodologies (field probes, novel phantoms, and dosimetric devices)
Important dates:
Manuscript Due Friday, 12 September 2014
First Round of Reviews Friday, 5 December 2014
Publication Date Friday, 30 January 2015
Lead Guest Editor
Francisco Falcone, Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Madrid, Spain
Guest Editors
Victoria Ramos, Unidad de Telemedicina, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Ana Alejos, Departamento de Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain
Jolanta Karpowicz, Laboratory of Electromagnetic Hazards, Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy, Warsaw, Poland
Antonio Sarolic, FESB, University of Split, Split, Croatia
