Using Edge-Based Packet Trimming for Effective Bandwidth Utilization in 6G

As developments in Beyond 5G/6G continue to accelerate, the requirements of applications that will run on 6G networks will be rapidly increasing accordingly. It is expected that multimedia, which is the most popular network application, will require extra low latency and low loss. New transport mechanisms which take these factors into consideration are being developed in order to cope with these highly demanding requirements. This motivates us to investigate the use of the packet trimming technique, which allows the network to shrink packets, by eliminating some of the content, during their journey. In this paper, we propose an architecture suitable for using packet trimming in 6G. To support this, we present different bandwidth utilization algorithms and evaluate their performance for data transfer and packet trimming using real mobile datasets with highly dynamic bandwidths. This addresses these aspects, as well as providing effective bandwidth utilization compared to traditional dropping of packets.