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A Priority Rate-Based Routing Protocol for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

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The development of sensor hardware have made it possible to transmit real time multimedia data over a wireless medium using tiny resource constrained sensors. However, in current wireless sensor networks, multimedia traffic which has stringent bandwidth and delay requirements is not distinctively differentiated from other data types during transmission which makes it difficult to meet its service requirements. Next generation wireless sensor networks are predicted to deploy a different model where service is allocated depending on the nature of data to be transmitted. Applying traditional wireless sensor routing algorithms to wireless multimedia sensor networks may lead to high delay and poor visual quality for multimedia applications. In this paper, we propose a priority based rate routing protocol that assigns priorities to traffic depending on their service requirements. We study, the performance of our proposed routing algorithm for real time traffic when mixed with three non real time traffic but with different priorities: high, medium and low priority. Initial results from the simulation show that the proposed algorithm performs better compared to two existing algorithms PCCP and CCF in terms of delay, loss and throughput.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South-Africa

    Loini Tshiningayamwe & Mqhele E. Dlodlo

  2. Department of Computer Science, Polytechnic of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia

    Guy-Alain Lusilao-Zodi

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  1. School of Mathematics, Statistics and CS, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

    Nelishia Pillay

  2. Sch of IT, Dept of CS, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Andries P. Engelbrecht

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    Ajith Abraham

  4. Department of Computing Sciences,, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

    Mathys C. du Plessis

  5. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and, Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

    Václav Snášel

  6. Fakulti Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunikas, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Durian Tunggal, Malaysia

    Azah Kamilah Muda

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Tshiningayamwe, L., Lusilao-Zodi, GA., Dlodlo, M.E. (2016). A Priority Rate-Based Routing Protocol for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. In: Pillay, N., Engelbrecht, A., Abraham, A., du Plessis, M., Snášel, V., Muda, A. (eds) Advances in Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 419. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27400-3_31

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