Cooperative Space-Time Block Codes for Wireless Video Sensor Networks

Wireless video sensor networks (WVSNs) are gaining popularity due to numerous potential applications such as video surveillance, environmental and habitat monitoring, and so on. Considering large-scale WVSNs, in which the sink node is not within the range of all other nodes, a multi-hop operation is desired. This paper proposes a novel cooperative system that uses space time-block codes to enhance the performance of multi-hop wireless video sensor networks. The proposed scheme is designed to deal with large-scale WVSNs, by adapting the cluster size and extending the cooperation between the cluster-heads. The performance comparison between the proposed system and a non-cooperative scheme is presented based on network lifetime for varying propagation scenarios, number of camera nodes, and on the quality of transmitted videos in a WVSN. Simulation results show an improvement in performance for the proposed system.

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