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International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications

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A Survey on the Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

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Small low-cost multimedia sensors ubiquitously capture and transmit multimedia information from fields to central stations in support of applications. However, Multimedia sensors in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs), have limited resources in terms of their computational capability, memory capability, bandwidth, and battery power, which hinder a wide application of WMSNs. The challenges, issues and solutions in WMSNs regarding QoS, energy efficiency and security have been recently studied. It is highly desirable to incorporate the characteristics of multimedia and information security at the application layer into adaptation and optimization at lower layers in a cross-layer approach. In this paper, we conducted a survey on the recent development of the cross-layer design in WMSNs. Based on our studies, we concluded that that cross-layer approaches are promising solutions and can efficiently support future multimedia application in WMSNs.

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  1. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, USA

    Honggang Wang, Shaoen Wu & Kun Hua

  2. South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA

    Wei Wang

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, 50011, Ames, IA, USA

    Ying Cai

  2. Institute for Telecommunications Systems, Chair for Next Generations Networks, Technische Universität Berlin, Franklinstr. 28/29, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Magedanz

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai JiaoTong University, 1954 Huashan Road, Shanghai, China

    Minglu Li

  4. Department of Computer Engineering, San Jose State Univesity, 95192, San Jose, CA, USA

    Jinchun Xia

  5. Dipartimento di Informatica, Elettronica e Sistemistica, University of Bologna, 40136, Bologna, Italy

    Carlo Giannelli

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Wang, H., Wang, W., Wu, S., Hua, K. (2010). A Survey on the Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. In: Cai, Y., Magedanz, T., Li, M., Xia, J., Giannelli, C. (eds) Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications. MOBILWARE 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17758-3_37

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