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RTMCH: real-time multichannel MAC for wireless video sensor networks

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Exclusive benefits gained by using the image and video sensors in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), make the Wireless Video Sensor Networks (WVSNs), design and development of their structures, a trending topic. The main challenges of WSNs which are more critical in WVSNs are throughput and end-to-end delay. The radio transceivers recently used in WSN motes can work on different channels with very low switching time. Therefore, many multichannel protocols are proposed to improve the efficiency and throughput and decrease the packet drop rate of the network. Proposed algorithms rarely provide a particular solution to the end-to-end problem. Such delays are necessary parameters in real-time applications. In this paper a real-time multichannel protocol called RTMCH is suggested to address the end-to-end delay of a stream in WVSN. A flow-based channel assignment strategy is used for this purpose. Orthogonal channels are assigned to each flows based on many-to-one data-flow to minimize the contention and collision between different flows. Transmission power is a parameter that can be controlled to achieve desired link quality and to control link delay. Channel assignment problem aligns to a constrained optimization problem to make the specified end-to-end delay of each flow. A channel assignment and real-time packet forwarding scheme are then presented. Simulation results based on realistic channel and radio model shows that the RTMCH can efficiently use multiple channels and transmission power to meet specified end-to-end delay. The results also show better performance for RTMCH over a recent real-time protocol and basic multichannel schemes.

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The paper was supported by Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz under grant number 96/3/02/16670.

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    Mehdi Hadadian Nejad Yousefi, Yousef S. Kavian & Alimorad Mahmoudi

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Hadadian Nejad Yousefi, M., Kavian, Y.S. & Mahmoudi, A. RTMCH: real-time multichannel MAC for wireless video sensor networks. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 7803–7818 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6480-9

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