BRAVR: An AP-Assisted Online DRL Mechanism for Interactive VR Bitrate Adaptation over Wi-Fi (opens in new tab)

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 the underlying network conditions. This paper formulates VR bitrate adaptation as a network-aware, online decision-making problem ...