Geelix LiveGames: Remote Playing of Video Games

Holthe, Ole-Ivar; Mogstad, Ola; Rønningen, Leif Arne

doi:10.1109/ccnc.2009.4784713

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“…In Paper [7] we provide an overview of the evaluations of the remote play thin client and the remote game server. We did perform usability and user experience tests of the service with 8 test subject students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway.…”

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Multimedia Presentation for Computer Games and Web 3.0

Holthe¹

2009

IEEE Multimedia

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The HTML standard is an old and text-based format that is designed for narrowband networks. New enhancements to HTML, as well as new formats, are being evaluated. We wish to present a multimedia presentation system, format, and use cases for a wide range of context uses, including Web 3.0 and computer games. The system is compact and enables high performance 2D and 3D graphics. Use cases include in-game heads-up displays, remote playing of games, and 3D authoring for Web 3.0.

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“…In Paper [7], we provide information and evaluation results for the thin client and remote play system. De Winter et.…”

Section: Thin Client For Remote Playing Of Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multimedia Presentation for Computer Games and Web 3.0

Holthe¹

2009

IEEE Multimedia

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“…Zynga, which in 2011 operated online gaming services for over 250 million users, uses Amazon EC2 resources for operating games up to several months after their launch; the games supported by Zynga require much less computational and network resources than MMOGs. On-demand gaming, which offloads gaming computation to the cloud and streams back to remote clients the video output of the game, is provided by companies such as Geelix [7], OnLive, Gaikai, and OTOY; we do not consider this game operation model in this work, because major MMOG operators have yet to switch to this model, in part because of the high network requirements imposed on the players. Since late-2011, Amazon WS has been used for video-streaming by Netflix, and for off-loading web browsing for mobile devices with Android OS.…”

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SLA-based operation of massively multiplayer online games in competition-based environments

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Prodan

Iosup

2013

Proceedings of the International C* Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering

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To sustain the variable load of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS), game operators over-provision a static infrastructure capable of sustaining the peak load, even though a large portion of the resources is unused most of the time. This inefficient way of provisioning resources has negative impacts, leading to inefficient resource utilisation, high service prices, and limited market participation accessible only to the large companies. We propose a new ecosystem and model for hosting and operating MMOGs based on cloud computing principles involving four smaller and better focused business actors whose interaction is regulated through Service Level Agreements (SLAs): resource provider, game operator, game provider, and client. In our model, game providers lease operation SLAs from the game operators to satisfy all client requests and manage multiple distributed MMOG sessions. In turn, game operators efficiently lease on-demand cloud resources based on the dynamic MMOG load and ensure proper game operation that maintains QoS to all clients. In this paper, we focus on the business interaction between the game provider and the game operator by defining the SLA terms and the underlying negotiation protocol, including a model for compensations for QoS violations. We propose a method for ranking operational offers based on price, compensation and resource fitness, and study its impact on game provider's profit in an environment with several providers competing for SLAs from multiple game operators.

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“…A number of thin client architectures have been proposed to support real-time remote graphical applications, including remote gaming [3][4][5][6][7][8]. They can be roughly divided into two categories: instructionand image-based.…”

Section: A Remote Gaming Architecturementioning

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“…The instruction-based systems [3,4,7] transmit graphic drawing instructions from servers to clients and leave clients to render the graphics themselves. In contrast, the image-based systems [5,6,8] stream rendered game screens as real-time videos. Typically, instruction-based systems consume less bandwidth, as they only send graphics drawing commands whenever needed.…”

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On the Quality of Service of Cloud Gaming Systems

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Chang

Hsu

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IEEE Trans. Multimedia

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Cloud gaming, i.e., real-time game playing via thin clients, relieves users from being forced to upgrade their computers and resolve the incompatibility issues between games and computers. As a result, cloud gaming is generating a great deal of interests among entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, general publics, and researchers. However, given the large design space, it is not yet known which cloud gaming system delivers the best user-perceived Quality of Service (QoS) and what design elements constitute a good cloud gaming system. This study is motivated by the question: How good is the QoS of current cloud gaming systems?Answering the question is challenging because most cloud gaming systems are proprietary and closed, and thus their internal mechanisms are not accessible for the research community. In this paper, we propose a suite of measurement techniques to evaluate the QoS of cloud gaming systems and prove the effectiveness of our schemes using a case study comprising two well-known cloud gaming systems:OnLive and StreamMyGame. Our results show that OnLive performs better, because it provides adaptable frame rates, better graphic quality, and shorter server processing delays, while consuming less network bandwidth. Our measurement techniques are general and can be applied to any cloud gaming systems, so that researchers, users, and service providers may systematically quantify the QoS of these systems.To the best of our knowledge, the proposed suite of measurement techniques have never been presented in the literature.

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Geelix LiveGames: Remote Playing of Video Games

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Multimedia Presentation for Computer Games and Web 3.0

Multimedia Presentation for Computer Games and Web 3.0

SLA-based operation of massively multiplayer online games in competition-based environments

On the Quality of Service of Cloud Gaming Systems

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