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Measuring the latency of cloud gaming systems (2011)
| Venue: | In Proc. of ACM Multimedia |
| Citations: | 9 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Chen11measuringthe,
author = {Kuan-ta Chen and Yu-chun Chang and Po-han Tseng and Chun-ying Huang and Chin-laung Lei},
title = {Measuring the latency of cloud gaming systems},
booktitle = {In Proc. of ACM Multimedia},
year = {2011}
}
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Abstract
Cloud gaming, i.e., real-time game playing via thin clients, relieves players from the need to constantly upgrade their computers and deal with compatibility issues when playing games. As a result, cloud gaming is generating a great deal of interest among entrepreneurs and the public. However, given the large design space, it is not yet known which plat-forms deliver the best quality of service and which design elements constitute a good cloud gaming system. This study is motivated by the question: How good is the real-timeliness of current cloud gaming systems? To ad-dress the question, we analyze the response latency of two cloud gaming platforms, namely, OnLive and StreamMy-Game. Our results show that the streaming latency of On-Live is reasonable for real-time cloud gaming, while that of StreamMyGame is almost twice the former when the StreamMyGame server is provisioned using an Intel Core i7-920 PC. We believe that our measurement approach can be generally applied to PC-based cloud gaming platforms, and that it will further the understanding of such systems and lead to improvements.
