The impact of MAC protocols in energy consumption of transferring multimedia contents using Castalia simulator

Wireless Sensor Network is a technology that allows the ability to exchange information and all kinds of files wirelessly, and It can be deployed in different environments. There is also a more sophisticated material which can record and transmit different types of data, such as sound, video and image. Thus, In order simulates the multimedia transfer we use a simulator instead of a real experiment. We choose to use the simulator Omnet++/Castalia and use a video sensor model with OMNET++ because it's a complete and tested model for transferring images on the raw. Also, we will test the effect of the MAC protocols on energy consumption and the quality of the transferred images in Omnet++/Castalia by using Opencv to transform images from the spatial space to a frequency space.