Cross Layer based Energy Aware and Packet Scheduling Algorithm for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network

Video transmission using sensor networks plays a most significant role in industrial and surveillance applications. Multimedia transmission is also a challenging task in case of guaranteeing quality of service in conditions like limited bandwidth, high congestion, multi-hop routing, etc. Cross layer approach is carried out to handle multimedia transmission over sensor networks for improving network adaptivity. Cross layer based energy aware and packet scheduling algorithm is proposed here to reduce congestion ratio and to improve link quality between the routing nodes. Link quality estimation among nodes is done using Semi-Markov process. Node congestion rate is determined for identifying node’s data channel rate. Packet scheduling process determines the highly prioritized packets by using queue scheduler component thereby the active nodes are selected through link quality process and the packets are transmitted to sink based on prioritize level. Simulation analysis is carried out and the efficiency of the proposed mechanism is proved to be better while comparing with the conventional schemes.