1st International ICSTWorkshop on Mobile Multimedia Networkin

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A Survey on the Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-17758-3_37,
        author={Honggang Wang and Wei Wang and Shaoen Wu and Kun Hua},
        title={A Survey on the Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks},
        proceedings={1st International ICSTWorkshop on Mobile Multimedia Networkin},
        proceedings_a={IWMMN},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={Cross-layer design Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-17758-3_37}
    }
    
  • Honggang Wang
    Wei Wang
    Shaoen Wu
    Kun Hua
    Year: 2012
    A Survey on the Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
    IWMMN
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17758-3_37
Honggang Wang1,*, Wei Wang2,*, Shaoen Wu1, Kun Hua1
  • 1: University of Massachusetts
  • 2: South Dakota State University
*Contact email: hwang1@umassd.edu, wei.wang@sdstate.edu

Abstract

Small low-cost multimedia sensors ubiquitously capture and transmit multimedia information from fields to central stations in support of applications. However, Multimedia sensors in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs), have limited resources in terms of their computational capability, memory capability, bandwidth, and battery power, which hinder a wide application of WMSNs. The challenges, issues and solutions in WMSNs regarding QoS, energy efficiency and security have been recently studied. It is highly desirable to incorporate the characteristics of multimedia and information security at the application layer into adaptation and optimization at lower layers in a cross-layer approach. In this paper, we conducted a survey on the recent development of the cross-layer design in WMSNs. Based on our studies, we concluded that that cross-layer approaches are promising solutions and can efficiently support future multimedia application in WMSNs.