Thompson-Sampling-Based Wireless Transmission for Panoramic Video Streaming

Panoramic video streaming has received great attention recently due to its immersive experience. Different from traditional video streaming, it typically consumes 4 similar to 6x larger bandwidth with the same resolution. Fortunately, users can only see a portion (roughly 20%) of 360 degrees scenes at each time and thus it is sufficient to deliver such a portion, namely Field of View (FoV), if we can accurately predict user's motion. In practice, we usually deliver a portion larger than FoV to tolerate inaccurate prediction. Intuitively, the larger the delivered portion, the higher the prediction accuracy. This however leads to a lower transmission success probability. The goal is to select an appropriate delivered portion to maximize system throughput, which can be formulated as a multi-armed bandit problem, where each arm represents the delivered portion. Different from traditional bandit problems with single feedback information, we have two-level feedback information (i.e., both prediction and transmission outcomes) after each decision on the selected portion. As such, we propose a Thompson Sampling algorithm based on two-level feedback information, and demonstrate its superior performance than its traditional counterpart via simulations.