01506nas a2200169 4500008004100000245005300041210005300094300001200147490001300159520095000172100001701122700002101139700002201160700002301182700002001205856011101225 2014 eng d00aCross Layer Design for Video Streaming in MANETs0 aCross Layer Design for Video Streaming in MANETs a328-3380 v9, No. 23 a

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).

1 aAdam, George1 aBouras, Christos1 aGkamas, Apostolos1 aKapoulas, Vaggelis1 aKioumourtzis, G uhttp://telematics.upatras.gr/telematics/publications/cross-layer-design-video-streaming-manets?language=el