A Cross-layer Design for Video Transmission with TFRC in MANETs

George Adam, Christos Bouras, Apostolos Gkamas, Vaggelis Kapoulas, Georgios Kioumourtzis

2012

Abstract

Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are becoming more essential to wireless communications due to growing popularity of mobile devices. However, MANETs do not seem to effectively support multimedia applications and especially video transmission. In this work, we propose a cross-layer design that aims to improve the performance of video transmission using TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC). Our design provides priority to video packets and exploits information from the MAC layer in order to improve TFRC’s performance. The proposed cross-layer mechanism utilizes Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) measurements along the routing path, in order to make the route reconstruction procedure more efficient. Simulation results show that both the use of traffic categorization and the SNR utilization lead to important improvements of video transmission over the mobile Ad hoc network. More specifically, simulations indicate increased average Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) for the received video, increased throughput and packet delivery ration, as well as reduced average end-to-end delay.

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Adam G., Bouras C., Gkamas A., Kapoulas V. and Kioumourtzis G. (2012). A Cross-layer Design for Video Transmission with TFRC in MANETs . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, e-Business and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: DCNET, (ICETE 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-23-5, pages 5-12. DOI: 10.5220/0004026200050012


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@conference{dcnet12,
author={George Adam and Christos Bouras and Apostolos Gkamas and Vaggelis Kapoulas and Georgios Kioumourtzis},
title={A Cross-layer Design for Video Transmission with TFRC in MANETs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, e-Business and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: DCNET, (ICETE 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={5-12},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004026200050012},
isbn={978-989-8565-23-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, e-Business and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: DCNET, (ICETE 2012)
TI - A Cross-layer Design for Video Transmission with TFRC in MANETs
SN - 978-989-8565-23-5
AU - Adam G.
AU - Bouras C.
AU - Gkamas A.
AU - Kapoulas V.
AU - Kioumourtzis G.
PY - 2012
SP - 5
EP - 12
DO - 10.5220/0004026200050012