Prototyping QoE-Aware Rate Adaptation in Cellular Networks with Commercial Applications

📅 2026-09-08
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本文通过使用现有技术构建系统,实现基于QoE的资源分配,解决了商业应用中缺乏相关能力的问题,以提高实时视频会话质量。
📝 Abstract
Prior work has shown that QoE-aware resource sharing for real-time interactive video can support up to three times more simultaneous sessions at acceptable quality compared to rate-fair allocation. However, the required capabilities (QoE-targeted encoding, runtime spatial complexity estimation, and rich application-network APIs) are not yet available in commercial deployments. In this paper, we take an evolutionary approach: we design a system that delivers QoE-aware resource allocation using only capabilities that can be assembled in a lab today. We extend the utility-based allocation framework to the radio resource domain by introducing composite spatial complexity, which combines a session's video spatial complexity with its time-variant spectral efficiency into a single resource demand function. To operate with commercial real-time video streaming applications that use rate-based congestion control and lack capability to measure QoE, we use external tooling for QoE measurements. We develop an incremental reallocation algorithm with per-interval limits that encode both the congestion control algorithm's speed constraint and that spatial complexity estimates are reliable only near the current rate. The resulting prototype combines external QoE measurements with congestion-signal-based rate steering and does not require modification to commercial applications. We chart an evolution path from this prototype toward full QoE-aware resource sharing, mapping emerging standards (IETF SCONE, CAMARA, Media over QUIC) to the progressive capabilities they enable.
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QoE-aware
resource allocation
commercial applications
real-time interactive video
spatial complexity
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QoE-aware resource allocation
composite spatial complexity
incremental reallocation algorithm
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