BRAVR:一种AP辅助的在线深度强化学习机制,用于Wi-Fi下交互式VR码率自适应
BRAVR: An AP-Assisted Online DRL Mechanism for Interactive VR Bitrate Adaptation over Wi-Fi
Miguel Casasnovas, Francesc Wilhelmi, Boris Bellalta
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提出并实现BRAVR——一种结合应用层观测与Wi-Fi接入点轻量无线统计的分散式深度强化学习码率自适应机制,并在真实Wi-Fi测试床上与NeSt-VR及无AP遥测的消融版本进行对比评估。
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Interactive virtual reality (VR) streaming over Wi-Fi requires stringent latency and reliability guarantees, which become increasingly difficult to achieve under dynamic channel conditions and shared-medium contention. These challenges make real-time bitrate adaptation a critical yet fundamentally difficult control problem, particularly under limited visibility of network conditions. This paper formulates VR bitrate adaptation as a network-aware, online decision-making problem and proposes BRAVR, a decentralized deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm that combines application-layer observations with lightweight wireless statistics collected at the Wi-Fi access point (AP) to balance visual quality, streaming performance, and multi-user airtime fairness. We implement BRAVR in a real VR streaming system and evaluate it on a physical Wi-Fi testbed against the VR-tailored NeSt-VR algorithm and an ablated BRAVR variant without AP telemetry. Experimental results show that, in the evaluated scenarios, BRAVR consistently achieves its design objectives, delivering robust quality of service (QoS) while avoiding sustained airtime overutilization. It also outperforms the AP-blind ablation, demonstrating the value of incorporating network-level information into the bitrate adaptation control loop. Overall, these results demonstrate the potential of AP-assisted online learning for decentralized interactive VR streaming over commodity Wi-Fi and provide practical insights into bitrate adaptation in shared wireless environments.