CSE - VR WiFi Performance

With the arrival of the Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro, virtual reality has received a considerable uptick in research interest.  The performance of the wireless network often plays a critical role in the perceived Quality of Experience (QoE) of the user.  While new technologies such as WiFi 7, different wireless bands (6 GHz), and increased channel width (160 MHz) aim to overcome various shortcomings of WiFi performance, it is unclear the extent to which these new additions can ameliorate wireless network issues.

Notably, there is considerable concern that the motion of the VR headset is a significant source of variations in WiFi performance, essentially causing bad performance when the network is needed most (e.g. looking somewhere else demands better performance to update the VR view).  The focus of this student research will be to explore the impact of VR and WiFi in the 5 GHz and 6 GHz spectrum bands, running experiments and analyzing the respective datasets.