Hierarchical Forwarding Resource Allocation With Proactive Frame Dropping for VR Video Streaming
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Abstract
In this paper, a hierarchical forwarding resource allocation scheme with proactive frame dropping is proposed for multi-user virtual reality (VR) video streaming, aiming to enhance video quality in the presence of network congestion caused by multiple VR flows sharing a certain hop while considering the impact of network fluctuation. Firstly, we assess the queuing delay bound of frames, allowing bottleneck node to preemptively discard frames that are anticipated to expire. Secondly, we model the priority of different frames based on encoding referencing relationship and users' viewpoints, which helps to prioritize frames of each flow. Subsequently, we formulate an optimization problem to minimize the long-term quality loss caused by frame dropping, while adhering to per-flow quality assurance and total resource constraints. Considering the distinct timescales of network fluctuation and frame dropping, we propose a two-timescale hierarchical resource allocation scheme. On the long timescale, a resource allocation algorithm is designed based on queuing theory to calculate the resource demand of each flow. On the short timescale, to accommodate network fluctuations, a low-complexity heuristic algorithm is devised to adjust allocation results based on frame priority. Comprehensive simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in improving the quality of VR flow under diverse network conditions.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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