MREEP: A QoS based routing protocol for wireless multimedia sensor networks

Use of general and efficient routing protocols for wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSN) is of crucial significance Similar to other traditional networks, in WMSN a noticeable proportion of energy is consumed due to communications. In addition to energy, depending on network´s application, many other parameters are also considered. In this paper, a data centric routing protocol which considers end to end delay, reliability, energy consumption, lifetime and fairness have been taken into account. The Proposed protocol which is called MREEP (Multimedia Reliable Energy Efficient routing Protocol) provides sending traffics with different priorities and QoS requirements based on constraint based routing. We study the performance of MREEP using different scenarios. Simulation results show that MREEP has achieved its goals.