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Disaster telemedicine leverages communications networks to provide remote diagnosis of injured persons in areas affected by disasters such as earthquakes. However, telemedicine relies heavily on infrastructure, and in a disaster scenario there is no guarantee that such infrastructure will be intact. In an ad-hoc network, devices form a network amongst themselves and forward packets for each other without infrastructure. Ad-hoc networks could be deployed in a disaster scenario to enable communications between responders and base camp to provide telemedicine services. However, most ad-hoc routing protocols cannot meet the necessary standards for streaming multimedia because they do not attempt to manage Quality of Service (QoS). Node mobility adds an additional layer of complexity leading to potentially detrimental effects on QoS. Geographic routing protocols use physical locations to make routing …