@article{c042b2e52191434d9ae562509a37de17,
title = "IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Body Area Networks",
author = "Ladislau Matekovits and Giancarlo Fortino and Zhelong Wang and Hassan Ghasemzadeh and Valeria Loscri and Ildiko Peter and Matti H{\"a}m{\"a}l{\"a}inen",
note = "Funding Information: ZHELONG WANG received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in automatic control from the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in robotics from Durham University, U.K., in 2003. In 2004, he joined the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, where he is currently a Professor, a Ph.D. Supervisor, and the Director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. He was a Visiting Scholar with Stanford University, USA, from 2013 to 2014. He has authored or co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed papers. His research interests include wearable intelligent system, robotics, mechatronics, and wireless sensor networks. His research was funded by the National Natural Science of China, the National Hi-Tec Program, the National Earthquake Research Funds, the Dalian Information Technology Bureau, and various industrial collaborators. He is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Interactive and Wearable Computing and Devices, the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, and the Electrical Technique Committee of China Petrochemical Industry. Funding Information: He received the Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association, three first prizes from the Liaoning Province Natural Science Foundation, an Excellent IT Tutor Award from the Dalian Information Technology Bureau, and a Research Award from the Audi Foundation. He is the Vice Director of the Dalian Wireless Sensor Network Engineering Lab. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS and the Editorial Board Member for the Information Fusion, Industrial Robot, and the International Journal of Sensor Networks and Data Communications. He was supported by the Program for Excellent Talents in Liaoning Higher Education Institutions and Liaoning Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Project. He was selected as a Dalian Outstanding Expert in 2013.",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2844481",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "6",
pages = "30990--30995",
journal = "IEEE Access",
issn = "2169-3536",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
}