VECTORS: Video communication through opportunistic relays and scalable video coding
This addresses video communication challenges in domains like farm monitoring and disaster response, but it is incremental as it builds on existing opportunistic network concepts.
The paper tackled the problem of crowd-sourced video distribution in local areas by proposing a design that uses opportunistic networks and adaptive quality encoding to achieve reasonable delay bounds, with results discussed from trial runs within their institute.
Crowd-sourced video distribution is frequently of interest in the local vicinity. In this paper, we propose a novel design to transfer such content over opportunistic networks with adaptive quality encoding to achieve reasonable delay bounds. The video segments are transmitted between source and destination in a delay tolerant manner using the Nearby Connections Android library. This implementation can be applied to multiple domains, including farm monitoring, wildlife, and environmental tracking, disaster response scenarios, etc. In this work, we present the design of an opportunistic contact based system, and we discuss basic results for the trial runs within our institute.