%0 Journal Article
%T eHealth Service Support in Future IPv6 Vehicular Networks
%A Sofiane Imadali
%A Athanasia Karanasiou
%A Alexandru Petrescu
%A Ioannis Sifniadis
%A Eleftheria Velidou
%A V¨¦ronique V¨¨que
%A Pantelis Angelidis
%J Future Internet
%D 2013
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/fi5030317
%X 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.
%K vehicular networks
%K vehicle-to-infrastructure applications
%K remote healthcare
%K eHealth
%K IPv6
%K DHCPv6 default route
%U http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/5/3/317