Clouds + Games: A multifaceted approach

Debadatta Mishra; Magda El Zarki; Aiman Erbad; Cheng Hsin Hsu; Nalini Venkatasubramanian

doi:10.1109/MIC.2014.20

Clouds + Games: A multifaceted approach

Debadatta Mishra
, Magda El Zarki
, Aiman Erbad
, Cheng Hsin Hsu
, Nalini Venkatasubramanian

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Abstract

The computer game landscape is changing: people play games on multiple computing devices with heterogeneous form-factors, capability, and connectivity. Providing high playability on such devices concurrently is difficult. To enhance the gaming experience, designers could leverage abundant and elastic cloud resources, but current cloud platforms aren't optimized for highly interactive games. Existing studies focus on streaming-based cloud gaming, which is a special case for the more general cloud game architecture. The authors explain how to integrate techniques from the cloud and game research communities into a complete architecture for enhanced online gaming quality. They examine several open issues that appear only when clouds and games are put together.

Original language	English
Article number	6756699
Pages (from-to)	20-27
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Internet Computing
Volume	18
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2014.20
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

cloud computing
computer games
distributed interactive applications
user experience

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