Title: The new challenge: mobile multimedia sensor networks

Authors: Lei Shu, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio, Yuanfang Chen, Manfred Hauswirth

Addresses: Department of Multimedia Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. ' Department of Multimedia Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. ' Department of Multimedia Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. ' School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Economy and Technology Development Area, Dalian, 116620, China. ' Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway, Ireland

Abstract: Along with the fast development of sensor hardware, traditional scalar sensor nodes are now provided with both multimedia and mobility functions. By observing this emerging combination of these two functions into traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs), we take the opportunity in this paper to highlight a subset of WSNs, which we name as |mobile multimedia sensor networks| (MMSNs). Furthermore, we present a number of challenging issues that may appear in MMSNs in terms of enhancing diverse quality of services (QoS) and prolonging the network lifetime for both WSNs and multimedia communication research communities.

Keywords: mobile multimedia sensor networks; research issues; mobile networks; wireless sensor networks; WSNs; quality of service; QoS; network lifetime; wireless networks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIS.2011.041361

International Journal of Multimedia Intelligence and Security, 2011 Vol.2 No.2, pp.107 - 119

Published online: 28 Feb 2015 *

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