QoS-aware routing protocol using adaptive retransmission of distorted descriptions in MDC for MANETs

Abstract

Quality of service (QoS) of delay sensitive application like video stream is majorly affected by instantaneous channel conditions over noisy mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). Methods like forward error correction (FEC) and automatic repeat request (ARQ), multiple description coding (MDC), and MDC with error correction (MDC_EC) design to recover the quality of the video in noisy wireless networks under perform in MANETs because of their high overheads and high retransmission delay. MDC and MDC_EC produce unacceptable video quality at the receiver and fail to fulfil the QoS requirements of the video applications. We have proposed a novel routing protocol to support QoS and reduce overheads. The proposed work is twofold: i) redefine the distortion model to estimate the distortion of the transmitted video; ii) proposed a novel routing protocol model to mitigate the impact of channel noise on the video quality through selected retransmission of noisy descriptors (MDC_EC_RE).