Video Streaming over Wireless Mesh Networks

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have emerged as a key technology for next-generation wireless networking. Wireless mesh network is a self-organizing, self-managing and self-healing and thus it is easy and speedy in deployment. Apart from these characteristics, it is low cost and easy maintenance. However, WMNs pose several difficulties in transmission of information, especially time critical applications, such as streaming video. In this tutorial we provide focuses on WMNs and their prominence on ad-hoc networks, concepts of video and its transmission requirements, such as video coding and wireless channel specifications, with focuses on video surveillance systems.