Experimental evaluation of virtual reality applications running on next-gen network scenarios with edge cloud assistance

Shalini Choudhury, Jakub Kolodziejski, Ivan Seskar, Dipankar Raychaudhuri

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Abstract

Volumetric video is an emerging key technology for immersive representation of 3D spaces and objects. Rendering volumetric video at client's end requires significant computational power which is challenging especially for mobile devices. One of the ways to mitigate this is to offload the rendering at the edge cloud and stream the video and audio to the thin client. Remote edge-cloud rendering may increase the end-to-end delay of the system due to the added network and processing latency which is greater than local rendering system. We investigate network latency in edge-based remote rendering over NextG networks and identify the bottleneck deteriorating the application performance. Further, we delve into the current state of the art and challenges of performing rendering remotely at the edge cloud and study the associated problems that need to be addressed in order to realize remote augmented reality(AR)/virtual reality (VR). Our prototype implementation shows effectiveness of maintaining the application QoE by prioritizing data at the level of a sub-flow and reducing the motion-to-photon latency.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationWiNTECH 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 16th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization, Part of MobiCom 2022
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages16-23
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781450395274
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 17 2022
Event16th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization, WiNTECH 2022 - Part of MobiCom 2022 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: Oct 17 2022 → …

Publication series

NameWiNTECH 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 16th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization, Part of MobiCom 2022

Conference

Conference16th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization, WiNTECH 2022 - Part of MobiCom 2022
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period10/17/22 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

Keywords

  • edge-computing
  • experiments
  • latency
  • remote rendering
  • virtual reality
  • wireless networks and communications

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