Research Article
An OMNeT++ Framework to Evaluate Video Transmission in Mobile Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.simutools.2013.251706, author={Denis Rosario and Zhongliang Zhao and Claudio Silva and Eduardo Cerqueira and Torsten Braun}, title={An OMNeT++ Framework to Evaluate Video Transmission in Mobile Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks}, proceedings={The 6th International Workshop on OMNeT++}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={OMNET WORKSHOP}, year={2013}, month={7}, keywords={mobile multimedia simulation node mobility wireless multimedia sensor networks}, doi={10.4108/icst.simutools.2013.251706} }- Denis Rosario
Zhongliang Zhao
Claudio Silva
Eduardo Cerqueira
Torsten Braun
Year: 2013
An OMNeT++ Framework to Evaluate Video Transmission in Mobile Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
OMNET WORKSHOP
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.simutools.2013.251706
Abstract
The development and evaluation of new algorithms and protocols for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) are usually supported by means of a discrete event network simulator, where OMNeT++ is one of the most important ones. However, experiments involving multimedia transmission, video flows with different characteristics, genres, group of pictures lengths, and coding techniques must be evaluated based also on Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics to reflect the user's perception. Such experiments require the evaluation of video-related information, i.e., frame type, received/lost, delay, jitter, decoding errors, as well as inter and intra-frame dependency of received/distorted videos. However, existing OMNeT++ frameworks for WMSNs do not support video transmissions with QoE-awareness, neither a large set of mobility traces to enable evaluations under different multimedia/mobile situations. In this paper, we propose a Mobile MultiMedia Wireless Sensor Network OMNeT++ framework (M3WSN) to support transmission, control and evaluation of real video sequences in mobile WMSNs.