Depending upon the technological developments, the same fast evolution has occurred in the structures of sensor networks, their composing devices which are sensor nodes, and their application areas. Those tiny, energy-constrained, mostly non-real-time data transmitting sensor nodes have evolved to more energy-containing, camera-adapted, real-time multimedia-data-transmitting devices. Developments in the usage areas and the capabilities have revealed some other problems such as time limited data transmission. In this paper, we propose a multichannel cross-layer architecture for Quality of Service (QoS) constrained multimedia sensor networks. The proposed architecture considers both the time and energy efficiency concepts. Energy efficiency is succeeded by ensuring the fair load distribution among the nodes during a real-time multimedia packet stream transmission. Besides ensuring the fair load distribution, on-time packet transmission is also assured by constructing the paths with a hard reservation technique depending on the predetermined QoS constraints. Simulations show that the proposed architecture provides higher performance than the Greedy approach and the LEERA scheme. 2 International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Wireless Sensor Network (MWSN) [5, 6]. After these new technologies, new problems and requirements emerge, such as on time transmission, low loss rate, and small jitter. Obviously, like all other communication technologies, a constant QoS value must be supplied by the network and its communication protocols during the transmission of multimedia data. Most of the traditional WSNs gather and transmit the physical data, which is delay tolerant and does not require a specific service quality [6]. In this paper, we propose a multichannel, cross-layer structure, in which packet forwarding is made according to the residual energy levels and geographical coordinates of the nodes. These nodes are positioned along the paths, which ensure the QoS parameters defined at the beginning of the data transmission. In order to provide load distribution, next hop selection is done by considering the residual energy levels of the nodes in the coverage area. Besides, to increase channel utilization, overall channel frequency is divided into data channels and a control channel, which is only used for request message and non-real-time data transmission. Multiple paths with different QoS constraints can be constructed by using multiple channels. Hence, different node sets can be employed in lifetime maximization. Additionally, higher channel utilization is succeeded by using multiple channels. Before the start of real-time data transmission, hard bandwdith reservation is employed as done in the ATM networks. Thereby, the required QoS is assured. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 gives brief information about the structure, features, and requirements of MWSNs. In Section 3, related studies about MWSNs are discussed. Section 4 defines the architecture we construct. Section 5 gives the simul...