Since the first special issue on “Telemedicine and Applications” was published in April 2000, advances in broadband network communication technology both wired and wirelesses have expanded telemedicine to a pressing need of high speed networks in medicine and public health care. Recent achievements in these fields have helped to better understanding of computing and communication infrastructure...

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In this paper, we are going to present a data dissemination protocol for wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSN). The proposed protocol entitled as PLAF (Priority based Location Aided Flooding) is used for packet dissemination in WMSN. PLAF considers network as a virtual grid. Depending on its geographical position, each node is placed in one of network cells. We prevent sending redundant pa...

— As the technology of multimedia sensor networks is desired in large numbers of applications nowadays, real-time service becomes one of the most important research challenges. Even though lots of related works have been conducted to meet this requirement in several ways, the specific traffic model for real-time has not been taken yet. Thus, it causes lack of adaptability of those approaches in...