ABSTRACT
The recent technological advances and the multiple challenges faced by the health-care sector are strongly motivating the adoption and development of e-Health services. In this chapter, we provide a high-level framework for the design of end-to-end e-Health solutions and focus on the potential enhancements that can be achieved by the application of network coding (NC) techniques at the medium access control (MAC) layer. After a survey of existing solutions in the literature, we present a novel MAC scheme that employs NC techniques in a cooperative sensor network. The use of NC enables bidirectional communication in an efficient way, increasing the energy efficiency without compromising the quality of service (QoS).
