Speeding up the Evaluation of Multimedia Streaming Applications in MANETs using HMMs ABSTRA.pdfVIP

Speeding up the Evaluation of Multimedia Streaming Applications in MANETs using HMMs Carlos T. Calafate Pietro Manzoni Manuel P. Malumbres calafate@disca.upv.es pmanzoni@disca.upv.es mperez@disca.upv.es Department of Computer Engineering Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) Valencia, Spain ABSTRACT QoS support. However, support for real-time communication in Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) present quite large packet loss wireless networks is becoming more and more important due to the bursts due to mobility. In this work we propose two models based increasing demand for multimedia applications. on hidden Markov models for estimating packet arrivals and packet The issue of topology variability can only be handled through loss patterns in MANETs. These models help the evaluation and efficient routing mechanisms. A couple of years ago near to 60 proposals of routing protocols were being evaluated. Nowadays tuning of multimedia streaming applications in terms of simulation time and required resources. In particular, we show how these mod- only four proposals, respectively the “Ad hoc On Demand Distance els can be applied in the design of error concealment algorithms to Vector” (AODV) [3], the “Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for increase the video coding resilience. The obtained results show that Mobile Ad hoc Ne