A Joint Framework for QoS and QoE for Video Transmission over Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

Muhammad Usman, Ning Yang, Mian Ahmad Jan, Xiangjian He, Min Xu, Kin Man Lam

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Abstract

With the emergence of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs), the distribution of multimedia contents have now become a reality. Without proper management, the transmission of multimedia data over WMSNs affects the performance of networks due to excessive packet-drop. The existing studies on Quality of Service (QoS) mostly deal with simple Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and as such do not account for an increasing number of sensor nodes and an increasing volume of data. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to support QoS in WMSNs along with a light-weight Error Concealment (EC) scheme. The EC schemes play a vital role to enhance Quality of Experience (QoE) by maintaining an acceptable quality at the receiving ends. The main objectives of the proposed framework are to maximize the network throughput and to cover-up the effects produced by dropped video packets. To control the data-rate, Scalable High efficiency Video Coding (SHVC) is applied at multimedia sensor nodes with variable Quantization Parameters (QPs). Multi-path routing is exploited to support real-time video transmission. Experimental results show that the proposed framework can efficiently adjust large volumes of video data under certain network distortions and can effectively conceal lost video frames by producing better objective measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)746-759
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Volume17
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Error concealment
  • QPs
  • QoE
  • QoS
  • SHVC
  • WMSNs
  • WSNs

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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