Optimal Multi-Quality Multicast for 360 Virtual Reality Video

01/08/2019
by   Kaixuan Long, et al.
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A 360 virtual reality (VR) video, recording a scene of interest in every direction, provides VR users with immersive viewing experience. However, transmission of a 360 VR video which is of a much larger size than a traditional video to mobile users brings a heavy burden to a wireless network. In this paper, we consider multi-quality multicast of a 360 VR video from a single server to multiple users using time division multiple access (TDMA). To improve transmission efficiency, tiling is adopted, and each tile is pre-encoded into multiple representations with different qualities. We optimize the quality level selection, transmission time allocation and transmission power allocation to maximize the total utility of all users under the transmission time and power allocation constraints as well as the quality smoothness constraints for mixed-quality tiles. The problem is a challenging mixed discrete-continuous opti-mization problem. We propose two low-complexity algorithms to obtain two suboptimal solutions, using continuous relaxation and DC programming, respectively. Finally, numerical results demonstrate the advantage of the proposed solutions.

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