eHealth Service Support in Future IPv6 Vehicular Networks

Future Internet

Sofiane Imadali³  Athanasia Karanasiou²  Alexandru Petrescu³  Ioannis Sifniadis²  Eleftheria Velidou²  Véronique Vèque¹ 

[1] Laboratory of signals and systems, University of Paris-Sud, Gif-sur-Yvette, Essonne F-91192, France; E-Mail:;Vidavo Technical Department, Vidavo S.A., Thermi, Thessaloniki 57001, Greece; E-Mails:;CEA, LIST, Communicating Systems Laboratory, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX , France; E-Mail:

关键词: vehicular networks;    vehicle-to-infrastructure applications;    remote healthcare;    eHealth;    IPv6;    DHCPv6 default route;   

DOI  :  10.3390/fi5030317

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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