A distributed beaconless routing protocol for real-time video dissemination in multimedia VANETs

•We design a framework for video (and in general high data rate applications) transmission over a VANET.•Our framework includes both application and routing layer design.•We analyze MAC layer behavior and improve its utilization by solving the Spurious Forwarding problem.•We tested our protocols on a real scenario, and considered both QoS and QoE, including MOS experiments in a real car.•We grant a high data rate in ad-hoc mode, also for long distance, through our backbone beaconless approach.