Edge computing meets millimeter-wave enabled VR: Paving the way to cutting the cord

By Mohammed S. Elbamby, Cristina Perfecto, Medhi Bennis, Klaus Doppler. 2018

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In this paper, a novel proactive computing and mmWave communication for ultra-reliable and low latency wireless virtual reality (VR is proposed. By leveraging information about users' poses, proactive computing and caching are used to pre-compute and store users' HD video frames to minimize the computing latency. Furthermore, multi-connectivity is exploited to ensure reliable mmWave links to deliver users' requested HD frames. The performance of the proposed approach is validated on a VR network serving an interactive gaming arcade, where dynamic and real-time rendering of HD video frames is needed and impulse actions of different players impact the content to be shown. Simulation results show significant gains of up to 30% reduction in end-to-end delay and 50% in the 90th percentile communication delay.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Citations in the corpus

Wireless Network Intelligence at the Edge (2018, methodology): “In this aspect, proactive content quality adaptation for multiuser 360◦ VR video streaming based on the field-of-view (FoV) prediction using GRUs is studied in [216].”
All One Needs to Know about Metaverse: A Complete Survey on Technological Singularity, Virtual Ecosystem, and Research Agenda (2021, background): “[460] proposed a novel proactive edge computing and mmWave communication system to improve the performance of an interactive VR network game arcade which requires dynamic and real-time rendering of HD video”
A Full Dive Into Realizing the Edge-Enabled Metaverse: Visions, Enabling Technologies, and Challenges (2022, background): “Second, to improve the performance of macrocell broadcasting, small cell unicasting VR streaming [85] can help macrocells to extend their coverage and thus”
A Survey of Multi-Access Edge Computing in 5G and Beyond: Fundamentals, Technology Integration, and State-of-the-Art (2019, unknown): “ion. The work demonstrates that the proposed framework is able to save communication bandwidth while meeting low latency requirement. Employing edge computing and mmWave transmission for VR services, [254] proposed a novel framework to minimize the computing latency by employing proactive computing ”