When Virtual Reality Meets Rate Splitting Multiple Access: A Joint Communication and Computation Approach

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Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has emerged as an effective interference management scheme for applications that require high data rates.

• Although RSMA has shown advantages in rate enhancement and spectral efficiency, it has yet not to be ready for latency-sensitive applications such as virtual reality streaming, which is an essential building block of future 6G networks.
• Unlike conventional High-Definition streaming applications, streaming virtual reality applications requires not only stringent latency requirements but also the computation capability of the transmitter to quickly respond to dynamic users' demands.
• Thus, conventional RSMA approaches usually fail to address the challenges caused by computational demands at the transmitter, let alone the dynamic nature of the virtual reality streaming applications.