@article {3441, title = {Cross Layer Design for Video Streaming in MANETs}, journal = {Journal of Networks, Academy Publishers}, volume = {9, No. 2}, year = {2014}, pages = {328-338}, 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\ design utilizes 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\ classification and the SNR utilization lead to important\ improvements in terms of end-to-end Quality of Service\ (QoS).

}, author = {George Adam and Christos Bouras and Apostolos Gkamas and Vaggelis Kapoulas and G Kioumourtzis} }