Multipath Video Real-Time Streaming by Field-Based Anycast Routing

• Published in: IEEE transactions on multimedia Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 533 - 540
• Main Authors: Kserawi, Malaz, Sangsu Jung, Dujeong Lee, Jihoon Sung, Rhee, June-Koo Kevin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY IEEE 01-02-2014; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Artificial intelligence; Cameras; Computer networks; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface; Computer systems performance. Reliability; Congestion; Delay; Delays; Equipments and installations; Exact sciences and technology; Logic gates; Mathematical models; Mobile radiocommunication systems; Multimedia streaming; Pattern recognition. Digital image processing. Computational geometry; Product introduction; Protocols; Radiocommunications; Real time; Routing; Routing (telecommunications); Software; Streaming media; Surveillance; Telecommunications; Telecommunications and information theory; Video transmission; wireless mesh network; wireless/mobile multimedia; Performance evaluation; wireless/mobile multimedia; Video signal; Data transmission; Anycast; Modeling; Delay; Multimedia streaming; Routing protocols; Dynamic programming; Load balancing; wireless mesh network; Fault tolerant system; High rate transmission; Availability; Streaming; Computer vision; Proximity; Meshed network; Transmission protocol; Multipath propagation; Poisson equation; Routing; Real time; Surveillance; Field potential; Wireless network; Metric; Reliability; Mobile computing
• ISSN: 1520-9210; 1941-0077
• DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2013.2293315

Wireless mesh networking (WMN) for video surveillance provides a strong potential for rapid deployment in a large community, for which reliability and survivability for real-time streaming are the key performance measure. However, current routing protocols do not provide a robust solution to meet video transmission requirements such as providing load balancing for the high data rate and delay requirements. We propose an application of field-based anycast routing (FAR) protocol, which utilizes rapid routing dynamics inspired by an electrostatic potential field model governed by Poisson's equation. This routing metric takes into account geometric proximity and congestion degree in order to increase delivery ratio and decrease end-to-end delay, which determine the quality of the delivered video. In addition, FAR protects node failure with an on-the-fly rerouting process that guarantees the continuity of video streaming. Simulation results show 100% delivery ratio in congestion situations and it shows tolerance to different delay requirements compared with AODV and FDMR protocols in terms of delivering real-time and non real-time video surveillance which verifies FAR as a strong candidate for video transmission over WMN.