Research on Multipath Data Transmission Protocol Based on Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The issue of data transmission in wireless sensor networks was studied. The video data collection was chosen as the object of the study, and the quality of service (QoS) problem of video transmission was analyzed. Video applications were generally characterized by large data size and many QoS requirements, which made the transmission of video always a hard problem. In this dissertation, a cross-layer and multi-path video transmission strategy (MVTS) was presented. MVTS introduced the idea of differentiated service and multipath routing, and operated in both application layer and network layer. In application layer, different types of video frames were distinguished and marked with different tags. Then in network layer these frames were identified by the tags and MVTS forwarded them in different paths. In this way, the key frames could be sent to the sink node reliably. Simulation tests were carried out, and simulation results showed that MVTS extended the network lifetime greatly and provided better assurance for quality of video applications.