Abstract: A software-based physical layer (PHY) management application is to configure a physical layer of a link through calls to an application programming interface (API) to send commands to firmware of a media access controller or internal PHY hardware of a platform. The commands to the firmware are to direct configuration of the physical layer of a link through the firmware, where the API abstracts functions of the controller and/or PHY hardware used to configure the physical layer of the link.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to power saving media streaming. A device may determine a path trajectory. The device may utilize one or more inference models that predict one or more parameters associated with a media segment in a prefetch buffer on a wireless link. The device may send a request to a server, wherein the request indicates to the server to send the media segment using a predicted bit rate and a media segment prefetch size. The device may receive a playback buffer from the server at the predicted bit rate.