In this paper, we propose a novel scheme of how to efficiently and reliably deliver multimedia real-time streams in wireless sensor networks. To specify the property of streams, a multimedia stream is modeled as an (m,k)-firm stream that is known to have the characteristics of weakly hard real-time system. In addition, a distributed, measurement-based routing scheme for (m,k)-firm streams is newly proposed while considering several constraints on node as well as on communication medium. Simulations and their analysis are provided to validate the suitability of traffic modeling, reduced dynamic failure probability, and extended network lifetime when the proposed routing protocol is employed.As motivated by the aforementioned needs, we consider the (m,k)-firm model [21] in wireless sensor networks. A real-time stream with the (m,k)-firm guarantee requirement demands that at least m out of any k consecutive packets in this stream must meet their respective deadline. Two well-known examples for a (m,k)-firm stream are video and audio streams, because they are tolerant to packet loss but sensitive to real-time delivery. The concept of (m,k)-firm is appropriate for wireless sensor networks due to minimum requirement and its inevitable packet loss. Packet loss is naturally expected because of the poor wireless connectivity and bandwidth constraints on wireless sensor networks. Despite of the apparent suitability of the model, to the best of the authors' knowledge, the research in [16] has been only addressed to date except for the schemes developed by our research group [22,23].Although our previous work was proposed to introduce and support a (m,k)-firm model in wireless multimedia sensor networks, our contribution was limited to develop the appropriate scheduling for the traffic model. Thus, in consequence of our achievements, we propose a scheme on how to efficiently and reliably model a (m,k)-firm traffic in wireless multimedia sensor networks and employ routing algorithm to guarantee real-time delivery. In the proposed scheme, both m and k values are determined by the density