Abstract
Cloud gaming has emerged as a promising approach to more affordable and accessible games. By rendering high-end video games in the cloud and streaming encoded game scenes to players via the broadband networks, users are relieved from downloading or installing game software. With cloud gaming, users can easily play high-end 3-D video games on any devices anytime and anywhere. In this paper, we conducted a comprehensive measurement study of a leading cloud gaming system in China, namely, CloudUnion. Unlike the previous work, our measurement study was based on an in-depth understanding of the internal mechanisms of CloudUnion, and thus we were able to reveal problems that cannot be observed in a black-box approach. We built a dedicated measurement platform, which enables us to study CloudUnion from different views, including the global view, local view, and user view. We also conducted a comparison study with another cloud gaming system, namely, GamingAnywhere. Our measurement results unveil the pros and cons of the current cloud gaming system design, and bring forth important insights about the cloud infrastructure, user behaviors, traffic patterns, user-perceived quality, and so on. Our work will be valuable for the design of future cloud gaming systems.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 6934992 |
| Pages (from-to) | 2013-2025 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2015 |
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Keywords
- cloud gaming
- measurements
- streaming
- video games
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Media Technology
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Playing High-End Video Games in the Cloud : A Measurement Study. / Xue, Zheng; Wu, Di; He, Jian; Hei, Xiaojun; Liu, Yong.
In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 25, No. 12, 6934992, 01.12.2015, p. 2013-2025.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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