The Role of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in Intelligent Transport Systems for Healthcare

Traffic mismanagement and overcrowded roads require an exclusive network to minimize deaths on route to hospitals while enabling health professionals to treat remotely folks located. Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) provide this opportunity, specifically in developing countries because of ease of deployment and low cost. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have different applications with different prerequisites. The WSN utilization in healthcare is rising, which moreover gives rise to unseen issues and challenges and problems related to public e-health administrators. Legacy mobile systems and smartphones have expanded the utility of portable wellbeing observing for elderly individuals and remote help in rustic ranges. Concurring to surveys, e-health is developing with emerging technologies relying on the Web-based, mobile, cloud computing and with the progression in fifth era systems. Moreover, the successful wireless healthcare monitoring deployment relies upon the reliability and robustness of the sensor network, which can be affected through interference. Prompt and on-time delivery of patient’s data is essential for mobile treatment and medical services. One such growing healthcare application is the vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) that is crucial to healthcare stakeholders’ safety criticality and crowd control. VANET is critical for intelligent transportation system (ITS) since they are challenging and significantly different from other networks in terms of randomness, dynamic architecture, and high mobility. Designing a data routing protocol for them is very challenging. The most common topology-based routing protocol for VANET is the Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing protocol. However, AODV is less optimized, and its performance degrades as the number of nodes and relative mobility upsurge. This text emphasizes the enhancement of protocols for ITSs with in-network aggregation or network coding schemes.