Performance Evaluation of Transport Protocols and Roadmap to a High-Performance Transport Design for Immersive Applications

TL;DR

This paper critically evaluates existing transport protocols for holographic communication, discusses their limitations, and proposes a roadmap for developing high-performance transport protocols tailored for immersive applications like HTC.

Contribution

It provides an in-depth analysis of transport protocols for HTC and outlines a roadmap for designing new high-performance protocols for immersive technologies.

Findings

Existing protocols may not meet HTC's network requirements

Performance evaluation highlights limitations of current transport protocols

Proposed roadmap aims to guide development of optimized transport solutions

Abstract

Immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and holograms will change users' digital experience. These immersive technologies have a multitude of applications, including telesurgeries, teleconferencing, Internet shopping, computer games, etc. Holographic-type communication (HTC) is a type of augmented reality media that provides an immersive experience to Internet users. However, HTC has different characteristics and network requirements, and the existing network architecture and transport protocols may not be able to cope with the stringent network requirements of HTC. Therefore, in this paper, we provide an in-depth and critical study of the transport protocols for HTC. We also discuss the characteristics and the network requirements for HTC. Based on the performance evaluation of the existing transport protocols, we propose a roadmap to design new high-performance transport protocols for immersive applications.