A cloud-assisted random linear network coding medium access control protocol for healthcare applications

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 4806-4830

  Kartsakli, Elli ^a   Antonopoulos, Angelos ^b   Alonso, Luis ^a   Verikoukis, Christos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Intelligent Energy Area Telecommunications Technological   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloud; Healthcare; MAC protocol design; Network coding; WBANs; WSNs

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEALTH CARE; LINEAR NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL; NETWORK CODING; SENSOR NETWORKS;

CLOUD ARCHITECTURES; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; MAC PROTOCOL DESIGN; MEAN COMPLETION TIME; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS; RANDOM LINEAR NETWORK CODING; WBANS; WSNS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84896487603     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140304806     Document Type: Article

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