Optimizing Immersive Video Quality-of-Experience (QoE)

Virtual Reality (VR), and other forms of Extended Reality (XR), are beginning to drive deep immersive experiences for premium entertainment and sports content. VR content imposes heavy bandwidth requirements on the network for a sustained throughput on an acceptable rate throughout the video playback session. The challenge however is that the available capacity along a delivery path may not be available in a manner to keep up the sustained throughput throughout the session and along the delivery path. This paper examines challenges along the delivery path and specifically provides for choices to manage congestion control at the last mile to allow for optimal delivery of immersive video.