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Cross-layer Design and Optimization Techniques in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks for Smart Cities

Hasan Ali Khattak¹, Zoobia Ameer², Ikram Ud Din³ and Muhammad Khurram Khan⁴

1. COMSATS University Islamabad
   44550 Islamabad, Pakistan
   hasan.alikhattak@ieee.org
2. Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar
   25500 Peshawar, Pakistan
   zoobia.ameer@sbbwu.edu.pk
3. Department of Information Technology, The University of Haripur
   Haripur 22620, Pakistan
   ikramuddin205@yahoo.com
4. Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA), King Saud University
   Riyadh 11451, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
   mkhurram@ksu.edu.sa

Abstract

The future smart cities vision can be developed through leveraging the potentials of Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies. WSN is a resource constrained network where network nodes are tiny devices that are run on battery power. Diverse types of applications such as environmental and habitual monitoring, detection, and tracking, use WSNs. The invention of new network protocols, the establishment of new models for communications, and testing the available solutions in real world environment are some of the current research issues in WSNs. Main challenges in such networks include energy conservation in an efficient way, dealing with variable channel capacity, and the resource constrained nature of such networks. The design of architecture for such networks has a vital role in solving the issues to some extent, i.e., the cross layer design approach is an architectural technique that offers the interaction of different layers together to enhance the performance, minimize the energy consumption, enhance the network life time, and provide Quality of Service (QoS) in real time communications. These are some of the current areas where cross-layer design approaches are being used. This paper presents different types of cross-layer design techniques in wireless multimedia sensor networks. Using such architectural techniques, different state of the art cross-layer optimization approaches are discussed while giving the reader an insight on prominent challenges and issues along with future directions.

Key words

Optimization, Multimedia, Wireless Sensor Networks, Smart Cities, Internet of Things

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS181115004K

Publication information

Volume 16, Issue 1 (January 2019)
Year of Publication: 2019
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium

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Khattak, H. A., Ameer, Z., Din, I. U., Khan, M. K.: Cross-layer Design and Optimization Techniques in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks for Smart Cities. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 16, No. 1. (2019), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS181115004K