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Multipath routing and rate-controlled video encoding in wireless video surveillance networks

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Video surveillance systems typically consist of many video sources distributed over a wide area, transmitting live video streams to a central location for processing and monitoring. The target of this paper—to bring down the overall system cost and increase feasibility, scalability, and performance—is to propose a new architecture for a wireless video surveillance network, whose telecommunication infrastructure is based on a wireless mesh network, and where video sources are able to estimate network bandwidth and consequently control their output rate. Multipath routing is applied in such a way that at least part of the information arrives at its destination even if a wireless link is shielded (maliciously or not). A case study is considered to discuss the performance of the proposed architecture, analyzing a comparison between single-path and multipath approaches.

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    Francesco Licandro, Alfio Lombardo & Giovanni Schembra

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Licandro, F., Lombardo, A. & Schembra, G. Multipath routing and rate-controlled video encoding in wireless video surveillance networks. Multimedia Systems 14, 155–165 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-008-0121-5

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