Methods, devices, and systems for providing panoramic video content to a mobile device from an edge server

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

• responsive to determining a first motion-to-update latency associated with video content exceeds a threshold:
• identifying a second motion-to-update latency from a plurality of motion-to-update latencies that is below the threshold;
• identifying an edge server associated with the second motion-to-update latency;
• and
• transmitting a portion of the video content to the edge server to mitigate the first motion-to-update latency according to the second motion-to-update latency, wherein the portion of the video content comprises a margin area surrounding a viewport area that covers a plurality of head movements of a user over a time period, wherein the margin area is determined by a coverage rate for the portion of the video content, a cumulative probability distribution function of the coverage rate and the second motion-to-update latency, wherein the coverage rate is based on covering the plurality of head movements over the time period, wherein the edge server crops the portion of the video content resulting in a cropped portion of the video content, wherein the edge server provides the cropped portion of the video content to a communication device associated with the user.

A method, comprising:

• responsive to determining, by a processing system including a processor, a first motion-to-update latency associated with video content exceeds a threshold:
• identifying, by the processing system, a second motion-to-update latency from a plurality of motion-to-update latencies that is below the threshold;
• identifying, by the processing system, an edge server associated with the second motion-to-update latency;
• selecting, by the processing system, a streaming protocol from a plurality of streaming protocols for use by the edge server resulting in a selected streaming protocol;
• and
• transmitting, by the processing system, a portion of the video content to the edge server to mitigate the first motion-to-update latency according to the second motion-to-update latency, wherein the portion of the video content comprises a margin area surrounding a viewport area that covers a plurality of head movements of a user over a time period, wherein the margin area is determined by a coverage rate for the portion of the video content, a cumulative probability distribution function of the coverage rate and the second motion-to-update latency, wherein the coverage rate is based on covering the plurality of head movements over the time period, wherein the edge server provides the portion of the video content to a communication device associated with the user utilizing the selected streaming protocol.