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ACWSN: an adaptive cross layer framework for video transmission over wireless sensor networks

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Wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs), have limited resources in terms of computational, memory, bandwidth, and battery capability, which makes transmitting multimedia content over it, is a challenge as multimedia requires QoS guarantee. Recently adopting cross-layer design in WMSNs proved to be a promising approach, which improves quality of service of WSN under various operational conditions. In this work, an adaptive cross layer framework for transmitting multimedia content over WSN (ACWSN) is presented, it is based on an extensive study of Group Of Picture structure effect on quality of multimedia transmission in various wireless channel states that is executed at sink node. It adaptably selects optimum video encoding parameters at application layer according to current wireless channel state which is communicated from physical layer and recommendations communicated from sink node; in addition an AVQ (adaptive video queue) which schedule packets according to its type to drop less important packets in case of network congestion. Simulation results show that ACWSN optimizes video quality in different wireless channel conditions.

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    Aliaa A. A. Youssif & Atef Zaki Ghalwash

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Youssif, A.A.A., Ghalwash, A.Z. & Abd El Kader, M.E.E.D. ACWSN: an adaptive cross layer framework for video transmission over wireless sensor networks. Wireless Netw 21, 2693–2710 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-015-0939-7

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