PASNet project MWSN

Context

Financial support : université Paris-Est (superBQR).
Term : 1 year (2009-2010).

Overview

The Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) are formed by small devices that are able to capture the multimedia information (video or audio) and to transmit it over wireless channels. The development of wireless technologies, such as: WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, UWB, etc. encourages the emergence of heterogeneous networks

In this project, we focus on the multi-tier architecture to ensure the scalability and the soft-based quality of services. This architecture is composed of three sensor networks with different characteristics as illustrated in figure 1. The first one is a single-tier network formed by homogeneous video sensors which capture the multimedia information. The multimedia contents are relayed to a wireless gateway through a multi-hop path. The gateway is interconnected to a storage hub in charge of the storage of the multimedia content for the subsequent retrieval. The wireless gateway is also connected to a central sink. The second network represents a single-tier clustered architecture of heterogeneous sensors such as: video, audio and scalar sensors that relay data to a central cluster-head which has the capacity to perform intensive multimedia processing.

Project Members

Stéphane Lohier, Associate Professor, PasNet group
Abderrezak Rachedi, Associate Professor, PasNet group
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Associate Professor, PasNet group
Ismail Salhi, PhD Student, PasNet group
Sylvain Cherrier, PhD Student, PasNet group
Erwan Livolant, Engineer, PasNet group

Publications

S. Lohier, A. Rachedi, E. Livolant and I. Sahli. Wireless Sensor Network Simulators Relevance compared to a real IEEE 802.15.4 Testbed. 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC'11) Istanbul Turkey 5-8 July 2011. IEEE Digital Library
A. Rachedi, S. Lohier, S. Cherrier, I. Sahli. Wireless Network Simulators Relevance Compared to a Real Testbed in Outdoor and Indoor Environments. 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC'2010), June 28- July 2, 2010. Caen, France. IEEE Digital Library
Stéphane Lohier, Abderrezak Rachedi, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, "A Cost Function for QoS-Aware Routing in Multi-tier Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks", 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS'2009).