Reliable real-time video communication in wireless sensor networks

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Ayran, Orhan

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Many wireless sensor network (WSN) applications require efficient multimedia communication capabilities. However, the existing communication protocols in the literature mainly aim to achieve energy efficiency and reliability objectives and do not address the multimedia communication challenges in WSN. In this thesis, comprehensive performance evaluation of the existing transport protocols is performed and it has been shown that the existing proposals achieve very poor performance in terms of large set of metrics such as packet delivery rate, end-to-end packet delay, bandwidth and energy efficiency, frame peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), delay-bounded frame PSNR, frame delivery probability, frame end-to-end delay and jitter. Based on these results, an energy-efficient real-time and reliable video sensor communication protocol (VSCP) is introduced for WSN. VSCP estimates video quality perceived by sink using lost segments of video frames and aims to maintain the overall reliability at a given level with minimum energy expenditure. Source data rates are adjusted in a quality adaptable manner according to the network conditions and the overall reliability computed by sink. QSC (quality scalable coding) encoding technique is used to produce a nearly constant quality video at a given maximum data rate during adjustment of source data rates. Performance evaluations show that VSCP protocol significantly outperforms the existing proposals in terms of multimedia communication performance metrics in WSN.

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Telecommunication (including telegraphy, telephone, radio, radar, television)

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16686

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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O. Ayran, “Reliable real-time video communication in wireless sensor networks,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.