Application-level performance of cross-layer scheduling for social VR in 5G

Conference paper (2023)

Authors

Z Du Student
J.L. van den Berg University of Twente
R. Litjens TNO, Network Architectures and Services - EEMCS
Research Group
Network Architectures and Services (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2023 Z. Du, J.L. van den Berg, T. Dimitrovski, R. Litjens
DOI
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https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118957
5G Social VR Cross-layer scheduling Application-level performance
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Quantum & Computer Engineering

Research Group

Network Architectures and Services

Abstract

Social VR aims at enabling people located at different places to communicate and interact with each other in a natural way. It poses extremely strong throughput and latency requirements on the underlying communication networks. This paper investigates the potential of using cross-layer design approaches for radio access scheduling in order to realize these challenging requirements in (beyond) 5G networks. In particular, we provide an in-depth simulation study of the performance/capacity gains that can be achieved by exploiting the end-to-end latency budget and/or video frame type as cross-layer information in the scheduling decisions, and show how the benefits depend on the actual social VR scenario. This study further reveals the importance of using application-level metrics such as PSNR or SSIM rather than traditional network-level metrics like the packet drop rate in the performance assessment.