Video Streaming Over Multi-hop Wireless Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we considered the problem of transporting layered video over erroneous multi-hop wireless networks and proposed a distributed system. Our proposed distributed scheme is comprised of distributed control (DC), distributed buffer (DB) and distributed error control schemes. The DC scheme improves the efficiency of the network bandwidth usage and reduces the end-to-end delay of the streaming application. End-to-end delay jitter can be reduced by proper use of the DB nodes' buffer. Replacing the traditional EEC and ARQ with our distributed FEC and ARQ scheme reduces the error-protection overhead and ARQ delay and improves the wireless channel throughput. A layered video module is developed in GlomoSim 2.03 for video streaming application. We simulated our distributed scheme employing the layered video module in GlomoSim 2.03. Our simulation results confirm that QoS of streaming video over erroneous multi-hop wireless network can be improved using our proposed distributed scheme.