TY - CONF T1 - Evaluation of video transmission in emergency response ad - hoc networks T2 - 4th International Conference on Data Communication Networking - DCNET 2013, Reykjavvk, Iceland Y1 - 2013 A1 - Christos Bouras A1 - G Kioumourtzis A1 - Apostolos Gkamas A1 - Vaggelis Kapoulas A1 - Dimitra Politaki A1 - Enea Tsanai AB -

Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are becoming more essential to wireless communications due to growing popularity of mobile devices. MANETs are also essential in Emergency Response situation where network information flow between deployed units is vital. In such cases voice and video transmission is essential to form a global view of the situation and decide on action. However, MANETs do not seem to effectively support multimedia applications and especially video transmission. In this work we evaluate the use of multiple interfaces and multiple channels for Video Transmission in Emergency Response Ad hoc Networks. We also evaluate the video transmission with rate adaptation. Aim of this paper is to tune multiinterfaces and multi-channels video transmission mechanisms in order to support better emerging situations and offer a solution to have acceptable transmission of the necessary video streams so that the control can get a complete overall picture of the situation and decide on the action to be taken. The simulation evaluation performed shows that multi-interfaces and multi-channels video transmission offers many advantages in Video Transmission in Emergency Response Ad hoc Networks.

JF - 4th International Conference on Data Communication Networking - DCNET 2013, Reykjavvk, Iceland ER -