eHealth Service Support in Future IPv6 Vehicular Networks

Autor: Véronique Vèque, Eleftheria Velidou, Ioannis Sifniadis, Alexandru Petrescu, Athanasia Karanasiou, Sofiane Imadali, Pantelis Angelidis
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Future Internet, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp 317-335 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1999-5903
DOI: 10.3390/fi5030317
Popis: Recent vehicular networking activities include novel automotive applications, such as public vehicle to vehicle/infrastructure (V2X), large scale deployments, machine-to-machine (M2M) integration scenarios, and more. The platform described in this paper focuses on the integration of eHealth in a V2I setting. This is to allow the use of Internet from a vehicular setting to disseminate health-related information. From an eHealth viewpoint, the use of remote healthcare solutions to record and transmit a patient’s vital signs is a special telemedicine application that helps hospital resident health professionals to optimally prepare the patient’s admittance. From the automotive perspective, this is a typical vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication scenario. This proposal provides an IPv6 vehicular platform, which integrates eHealth devices and allows sending captured health-related data to a personal health record (PHR) application server in the IPv6 Internet. The collected data is viewed remotely by a doctor and supports his diagnostic decision. In particular, our work introduces the integration of vehicular and eHealth testbeds, describes related work and presents a lightweight auto-configuration method based on a DHCPv6 extension to provide IPv6 connectivity with a few numbers of messages.
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