Effective Video Streaming with Low Latency over MANET

In this paper we address the challenge of delivering a video stream with low latency in MANET. The major challenges while streaming video over MANETs are latency, control overhead. Latency and control overhead can be reduced by using Enhanced Efficient Geographic Multicast Protocol (EEGMP). The EEGMP uses a virtual-zone-based structure to implement scalable and efficient group membership management for video packets. The position information guides the zone structure building, multicast tree construction, and packet forwarding, which efficiently minimizes the overhead for route searching and tree structure maintenance. Compared to Efficient Geographic Multicast Protocol (EGMP), EEGMP has significantly lower control overhead and latency.