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Routing and Coding Enhancements to Improve QoS of Video Transmissions in Future Ad Hoc Networks

Routing and Coding Enhancements to Improve QoS of Video Transmissions in Future Ad Hoc Networks
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Author(s): Juan C. Guerri (UPV, Spain), Pau Arce (UPV, Spain), Patricia Acelas (UPV, Spain), Wilder E. Castellanos (UPV, Spain)and Francisco Fraile (UPV, Spain)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 18
Source title: Multimedia Services and Streaming for Mobile Devices: Challenges and Innovations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Alvaro Suarez Sarmiento (Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)and Elsa Macias Lopez (Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-144-3.ch012

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Abstract

Video services are much demanded nowadays but bandwidth and delay requirements of this kind of services are very restrictive. Offering real-time video services in wireless ad-hoc networks is not an easy task because of the difficulty of guaranteeing certain quality in a shared medium. Practical solutions should try to improve communications at (and gathering information from) several layers of the protocol stack. Mobile Ad-hoc Networks are infrastructure-less wireless networks characterized by being very versatile, dynamic and self-organized but also by the difficulty to achieve a good Quality of Service in video transmissions due to packet losses and node mobility. On the other hand, the Wireless Mesh Network is presented as the next step in wireless networks. Wireless Mesh Networks have a hierarchical topology, clustered structure and static backbone, which all help to improve the network stability. In the way towards Wireless Mesh Networks, hierarchical routing protocols could transform an ad-hoc network in a more robust wireless network. Therefore, in this chapter, hierarchical routing protocols have been studied, particularly Hierarchical Optimized Link State Routing Protocol, and compared with a traditional flat routing protocol named Optimized Link State Routing. Furthermore, additional video coding techniques have been used in order to improve video quality in reception. At application layer, results show that Multi-description Coding achieves better quality on video transmissions when nodes have medium or high mobility, especially when using multipoint-to-point transmission or disjoint paths in a hierarchical structure. Video trace simulations have allowed us to perform subjective quality tests to assert the Quality of Experience improvements in video transmissions.

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