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Cooperative Space-Time Block Codes for Wireless Video Sensor Networks

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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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    Marcelo Portela Sousa, Ajey Kumar, Rafael F. Lopes, Waslon T. A. Lopes & Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar

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Sousa, M.P., Kumar, A., Lopes, R.F. et al. Cooperative Space-Time Block Codes for Wireless Video Sensor Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 64, 123–137 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0521-x

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