Towards Next Generation Immersive Applications in 5G Environments

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Main Authors: Asim, Rohail, Bhardwaj, Ankit, Suramanian, Lakshmi, Zaki, Yasir
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Published: 2025
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author Asim, Rohail
Bhardwaj, Ankit
Suramanian, Lakshmi
Zaki, Yasir
author_facet Asim, Rohail
Bhardwaj, Ankit
Suramanian, Lakshmi
Zaki, Yasir
contents The Multi-user Immersive Reality (MIR) landscape is evolving rapidly, with applications spanning virtual collaboration, entertainment, and training. However, wireless network limitations create a critical bottleneck, struggling to meet the high-bandwidth and ultra-low latency demands essential for next-generation MIR experiences. This paper presents Hera, a modular framework for next-generation immersive applications, comprising a high-level streaming and synchronization layer for AR/VR systems and a low-level delay-based QoE-aware rate control protocol optimized for dynamic wireless environments. The Hera framework integrates application-aware streaming logic with a QoE-centric rate control core, enabling adaptive video quality, multi-user fairness, and low-latency communication across challenging 5G network conditions. We demonstrate that Hera outperforms existing state-of-the-art rate control algorithms by maintaining up to 66% lower latencies with comparable throughput performance, higher visual quality with 50% average bitrate improvements in our analysis, and improved fairness. By bridging the gap between application-level responsiveness and network-level adaptability, Hera lays the foundation for more scalable, robust, and high-fidelity multi-user immersive experiences.
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spellingShingle Towards Next Generation Immersive Applications in 5G Environments
Asim, Rohail
Bhardwaj, Ankit
Suramanian, Lakshmi
Zaki, Yasir
Networking and Internet Architecture
Systems and Control
The Multi-user Immersive Reality (MIR) landscape is evolving rapidly, with applications spanning virtual collaboration, entertainment, and training. However, wireless network limitations create a critical bottleneck, struggling to meet the high-bandwidth and ultra-low latency demands essential for next-generation MIR experiences. This paper presents Hera, a modular framework for next-generation immersive applications, comprising a high-level streaming and synchronization layer for AR/VR systems and a low-level delay-based QoE-aware rate control protocol optimized for dynamic wireless environments. The Hera framework integrates application-aware streaming logic with a QoE-centric rate control core, enabling adaptive video quality, multi-user fairness, and low-latency communication across challenging 5G network conditions. We demonstrate that Hera outperforms existing state-of-the-art rate control algorithms by maintaining up to 66% lower latencies with comparable throughput performance, higher visual quality with 50% average bitrate improvements in our analysis, and improved fairness. By bridging the gap between application-level responsiveness and network-level adaptability, Hera lays the foundation for more scalable, robust, and high-fidelity multi-user immersive experiences.
title Towards Next Generation Immersive Applications in 5G Environments
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20050