Performance evaluation of ad hoc routing protocols to deliver MPEG-4 traffic

Mobile ad hoc network is an infrastructureless wireless network with limited bandwidth and highly dynamic topology. It can support wide variety of applications by using specialized routing protocol either proactive or reactive protocols. However, to support multimedia applications to deliver voice and video data over ad hoc network is very challenging due to its characteristic mentioned above. MPEG-4 encoding scheme seems to be suitable for ad hoc networks since they offer high video quality with higher compression ratio than other MPEG standards. Because of this motivation, performance investigation on MPEG-4 traffic delivery over ad hoc network is required. Hence, we construct the simulation to demonstrate the performances of various ad hoc routing protocols including both proactive and reactive protocols when they deliver MPEG-4 bitstreams.