Device capability-aware video streaming in advanced communication networks

A method, comprising:

• obtaining, by network equipment comprising a processor, capability data representative of a capability level of a downlink streaming device;
• obtaining, by the network equipment, performance data representative of a performance of the downlink streaming device according to a performance metric based on data communications with the downlink streaming device;
• determining, by the network equipment based on the capability data and the performance data, that the downlink streaming device is a reduced capability downlink streaming device co-located on a private network with an uplink streaming device that is recording, via at least one sensor, streaming content;
• determining, by the network equipment via the performance data, that the downlink streaming device is downloading, via at least one downlink channel, the streaming content being streamed, via at least one uplink channel, from the uplink streaming device beyond the capability level of the downlink streaming device to render output corresponding to the streaming content;
• determining, by the network equipment, an applicable data rate at which the downlink streaming device is able to render the output corresponding to the streaming content;
• and
• acting, by the network equipment based on the applicable data rate, to limit a grant of uplink resources of the at least one uplink channel to the uplink streaming device to reduce an uplink data rate of the uplink streaming device to the applicable data rate.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of network equipment, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• obtaining capability data of a content consumer device based on message data from the content consumer device;
• determining, based on the capability data, that the content consumer device does not satisfy threshold capability data;
• determining, based on quality data, that the content consumer device does not satisfy threshold quality data;
• and
• reducing an uplink data rate of an uplink channel employed by a content producer device for streaming content recorded by at least one sensor of the content producer device to the network equipment for consumption by the content consumer device via a downlink channel from the network equipment.