Multimedia (SMS, MMS, AUDIO, VIDEO) Over position aware personal area mobile ad hoc wireless networks (Papamanets)

Abstract

An ad hoc network is a collection of mobile nodes using wireless network interfaces to communicate among themselves, discovering and routing along possibly multihop routes to each other without the assistance of fixed infrastructure. Multimedia conferencing on wired networks has been studied and implemented by several software vendors such as Microsoft NetMeeting. However, multimedia applications on wireless endpoint devices such as PDA’s, iPAQs, etc. have not been researched and implemented widely. Personal communications and mobile computing requires a wireless network infrastructure which is fast deployable, multihop, and capable of multimedia service support on wireless endpoint devices such as iPAQs. Such rapidly deployable networks are categorized as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETS). This project explores the difficulties of deploying multimedia applications on position aware personal area mobile ad hoc wireless networks (PAPAMANETS) and implements a prototype for it.