VECTORS — VidEo Communication Through Opportunistic Relays and Scalable video coding

• Main Authors: Abhishek Thakur, Arnav Dhamija, Tejeshwar Reddy G.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
• Series: SoftwareX
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711018300918

Crowd-sourced video distribution is frequently of interest in the local vicinity. In this paper, we present a software platform called VECTORS to transfer videos 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. VECTORS can be applied to multiple domains including farm monitoring, wildlife, environmental tracking, or disaster response scenarios. In addition to the software architecture of VECTORS, we also discuss basic results for the trial runs conducted within our institute and provide an empirical analysis of proposed architecture using simulation. Keywords: User-generated video content, Opportunistic communication, User mobility, Disruption tolerant network