Multimedia Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
The availability of low-cost cameras, sensors and ubiquitous wireless technology is enabling new multimedia applications supported by quality-aware wireless multi-hop networks, including online gaming, video conferencing, mobile TV, peer-to-peer streaming, video surveillance, traffic enforcement and control systems, advanced health care delivery, and industrial process control. This special issue was therefore motivated by the increasing demand for multimedia wireless networking, and by our incomplete (at best) understanding of analytical and computational techniques, as well as best practices, to design resource allocation schemes, communication protocols, and self-organization algorithms for wireless multimedia ad hoc and sensor networks that will deliver, in a predictable and quantifiable fashion, the quality of service and experience required by the end user.
We have received 50 responses to our call for papers. As a result of a thorough review process, this special issue consists of 16 outstanding contributions describing stateof-the-art processing and delivery solutions for multimedia in ad hoc and sensor networks. The special issue is organized into two sections. The first section consists of