Integration of ehealth service in IPv6 vehicular networks

S. Imadali (1) , A. Karanasiou (2) , A. Petrescu (1) , I. Sifniadis (2) , E. Vellidou (2) , P. Angelidis (3)

1 DIASI - Département Intelligence Ambiante et Systèmes Interactifs
2 Vidavo S.A.
3 UoWM - University of Western Macedonia [Kozani]

Several convenience and efficiency applications have been proposed as part of recent vehicular networks (a.k.a. VANET) activities. Among these proposals, eHealth has often been studied as a time-critical application to emulate an ambulance. The Vehicle-To-Infrastructure (V2I) setting is the typical communication scenario to carry out the data in this case. From a user perspective, combining vehicular networking and eHealth to record and transmit a patient's vital signs is a special telemedicine application that helps hospital resident professionals to optimally prepare the patient's admittance. The current proposal pro-vides an IPv6 vehicular platform which integrates eHealth devices and allows sending captured user health-related data to a Personal Health Record (PHR) application server on the IPv6 Internet. The collected data are viewed remotely by a doctor and supports diagnostic decision. The resulting platform is then compared to the state-of-the-art related architectures. � Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2013.

Keywords: Vehicle to vehicle communications; Vehicular ad hoc networks; Ehealth; IPv6; Personal health record; Remote diagnosis; Telemedicine application; Time-critical applications; Vehicle to infrastructure (V2I); Vehicular networks; Internet protocols

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Engineering Sciences [physics]

S. Imadali, A. Karanasiou, A. Petrescu, I. Sifniadis, E. Vellidou, et al.. Integration of ehealth service in IPv6 vehicular networks. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST, 2013, 118 LNICST, pp.65-80. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-04102-5_7⟩. ⟨cea-01844706⟩