Call for Workshop Papers
Workshop Session “Privacy, Security and Trust for Body Area Networks (PST-BAN 2026)
as part of 21st EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BODYNETS) 2026
Florence, Italy
December 17-18, 2026
Scope
Body Area Networks (BANs), wearable devices, intelligent sensing technologies, Cyber-Physical & Human Systems and AI-driven healthcare applications are rapidly transforming modern digital health ecosystems. As these systems increasingly rely on edge intelligence, cloud services and emerging 5G/6G communication infrastructures, ensuring privacy, security, trustworthiness, resilience, and reliable operation have become a critical challenge.
The combination of sensitive physiological and personal data, resource-constrained devices, highly interconnected environments and the growing adoption of artificial intelligence introduces new challenges that require innovative approaches spanning communications, cybersecurity, trust management, human factors, ethics, regulation and digital health governance.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the cybersecurity, communications, artificial intelligence, healthcare, digital trust and regulatory communities, and foster interdisciplinary collaboration in the development of secure, trustworthy, privacy-preserving and human-centric and body-centric systems. Contributions are welcomed on topics including secure sensing and communications, privacy-preserving and trustworthy AI, authentication and trust mechanisms, post-quantum security, behavioural cybersecurity, human factors, resilient healthcare infrastructures, digital identity, secure edge intelligence and related approaches for building trustworthy digital health ecosystems.
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Topics of Interest (but not limited to):
Security, Privacy and Trust for Body-Centric Systems;
Privacy and Security in Body Area Networks, Wearable and Implantable Devices;
Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control for Healthcare Systems;
Security of Medical IoT and Connected Healthcare Devices;
Threat Detection, Risk Assessment, and Incident Response;
Cryptography, Digital Identity and Trust;
Post-Quantum and Quantum-Resilient Security for Healthcare Systems;
Lightweight Cryptography for Resource-Constrained Devices;
Secure Key Management, Device Authentication, and Trust Establishment;
Digital Identity, Trust Services, and Secure Health Data Exchange;
Artificial Intelligence for Security and Trust;
AI-Driven Threat Detection and Security Analytics;
Explainable and Trustworthy AI for Healthcare Applications;
Adversarial AI and Security of AI Models;
Trust and Governance of Autonomous Healthcare System;
Human-Centric Security, Ethics and Governance;
Human Factors and Behavioural Cybersecurity;
Human-Centric Security and Privacy-by-Design;
Ethical, Legal, and Societal Aspects of Healthcare Technologies;
Governance, Compliance, and Trust Frameworks for Digital Health Ecosystems
Workshop chairs
Miranda HARIZAJ (Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania)
Elva LEKA (Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania)
Submission and publication guidelines and deadlines
Accepted and presented papers will be published alongside the main conference proceedings as a sub-section/chapter. Paper formats should, therefore, correspond to the templates of the publisher of the main conference.
Workshop chairs are invited to engage journals and further publication opportunities.
The submission and Publication guidelines and deadlines are the same as for the EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks:
Full Paper Submission deadline: August 1, 2026
Notification deadline: September 1, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: October 1, 2026
Conference dates: December 17-18, 2026
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