Survey of cross-layer proposals for video streaming over Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs)

Efforts to realize video streaming over Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) meet many challenges, which are addressed by different techniques. In the highly dynamic and unpredictable environment of MANETs, cross-layer mechanisms seem to be the most suitable for optimising video streaming. This paper presents a survey of 44 studied papers on the area, comparing tools, parameters and metrics used for their evaluation. It also indicatively describes in more detail some of these proposals.