The Performance of MANET Routing Protocols for Scalable Video Communication

Mohammed Halloush, Hussein R. Al-Zoubi, Zakaria Al-Qudah, Osameh Alkofahi

.
Department of Computer Engineering, Hijjawi Faculty for Engineering Technology, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.

DOI: 10.4236/cn.2013.52012                

Abstract

Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) operate without infrastructure where nodes can move randomly. Therefore, routing in MANETs is a challenging task. In this paper we evaluate the performance of three important MANET routing protocols: Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV), Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) and Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) when employed to forward scalable video contents. AODV and DSR are reactive protocols in that routing paths are established once needed. On the other hand, OLSR is a proactive routing protocol where routing information is exchanged and maintained continuously. The goal of the performance evaluation in this study is to assess the performance of AODV, DSR and OLSR in communicating scalable video contents. In the simulation part of this paper, a real video sequence is communicated where the characteristics and quality of the video decoded at receiver nodes are evaluated. NS2 along with extensions and other evaluation frameworks have been used to assess the performance of the MANET routing protocols when used for scalable video communication. The framework allows starting from a raw video that is encoded, packetized, transmitted through a network topology and collected at receiver to be decoded, played, and evaluated. Delay and timing constraints are taken into consideration when decoding the received video packets.

Keywords

MANET; AODV; DSR; OLSR; Scalable Video Coding (SVC)

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

References

[1]	H. Zhou, “A Survey on Routing Protocols in Manets,” Technical Report: MSU-CSE-03-08, 2003.
[2]	ISO/IEC 14496-10:2003 Information Technology—Coding of Audiovisual Objects—Part 10: Advanced Video Coding.
[3]	ITU-T and ISO/IEC JTC1, JVT-W201, “Joint Draft 10 of SVC Amendment,” 2007.
[4]	H. Schwarz, D. Marpe and T. Wiegand, “Overview of the Scalable Video Coding Extension of the H.264/AVC Standard,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 17, No. 9, 2007.
[5]	AODV, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3561.txt
[6]	DSR, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4728.txt
[7]	OLSR, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3626.txt
[8]	NS2, http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/
[9]	C. H. Ke, “myEvalSVC: An Integrated Simulation Framework for Evaluation of H.264/SVC Transmission,” KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2012, pp. 378-393.
[10]	A. Detti, G. Bianchi, C. Pisa, F. S. Proto, P. Loreti, W. Kellerer, S. Thakolsri and J. Widmer, “SVEF: An Open-Source Experimental Evaluation Framework for H.264 Scalable Video Streaming,” IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Sousse, 5-8 July 2009, pp. 36-41.
[11]	J. Vieron, M. Wien and H. Schwarz, “JSVM-9.14 Software, Joint Video Team (JVT) of ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG,” 2007.