E-health application using network coding based caching for Information-centric networking (ICN)

Abstract

Beginning with the recent availability of wireless medical sensor prototype and growing, the need for E-health care application record databases, we analyze the requirement of a unified communication framework in overcoming generation network. This paper proposes Information-centric networking based framework over WBAN as the primary enabler for E-health applications. If users of wireless body area network (WBAN) use IP network, they face many issues such as packet loss, security etc. So, Information-centric network (ICN) is proposed to solve such problems with exploitation many advantages like efficient resource management, scalability, reduction of traffic and security. ICN router has the caching capability to cache the contents. In this way, users of ICN-based WBAN do not need to directly connect with the hospital server to access patient data. Further, we propose a protocol for ICN-WBAN to provide a secure, efficient and reliable E-health application services to meet the required needs of the current IP protocol stack and devices.