Fast eHealth Information Delivery in the ICN-based Mobile Networks

eHealth information should be delivered within a very short amount of time, in particular, in an emergency situation. eHealth content is delivered from a server upon receiving a request for the content via the network. The location of the content server may be far away from the content requester. In this case, the content delivery time can be large and therefore does not satisfy the content requester. To resolve this issue, a new networking paradigm called Information-centric network (ICN) can be used. ICN is a content-oriented network where the requested content is delivered from the nearby content provider in a fast manner by using its in-network caching capabilities. In this paper, we propose a fast eHealth information delivery mechanism in the ICN-based mobile networks where the users can access their requested content within a very short amount of time from the nearby content provider. Our simulation result ensures that the requested content can be delivered to the user in a shorter time than the current Internet.