Multimedia Sensor Networks

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) mainly deal with scalar data such as temperature, humidity, and light which are very suitable for low rate and low power IEEE 802.15 based networking technology. The commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) CMOS camera has fostered researchers to push WSN a step further. The unique properties of multimedia data delivery pose fresh challenges for resource constrained sensor...

A Fuzzy Based Approach for Rate Control in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) undergo congestion when a link (or a node) becomes overpopulated in terms of incoming packets. In WMSNs this happens especially in upstream nodes where all incoming packets meet and directed to the sink node. Congestion in networks, if not handled properly, might lead to congestion collapse which deteriorates the quality of service (QoS). Therefore, i...

Mobile, Multimedia, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Adaptive Multimedia Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks

Multimedia transmissions over wireless sensor networks may provide valuable information of the monitored field, enhancing monitoring and control applications. However, multimedia streaming can considerably shorten the expected lifetime of battery-operated sensor networks due to the large amount of information to be transmitted from multimediaenabled source nodes. On the other hand, multimedia d...

Multimedia Transmission over Wireless Sensor Networks

This chapter presents an overview of multimedia information transmission over Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). These WSNs have evolved since the 1980s and their evolution can be divided into three generations. Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) have become viable in recent years with the availability of inexpensive video cameras, increase in procession power and memory capacity of node...