UBCGaming: Ubiquitous Cloud Gaming System

Cai, Wei; Chi, Yuanfang; Zhou, Conghui; Zhu, Chaojie; Leung, Victor C. M.

doi:10.1109/jsyst.2018.2797080

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“…Based on the identified issues and challenges, 20 pieces of literature were selected to discuss solutions. From the literature, the identified solutions include lag or latency compensation [17], [29], compression with encoding techniques [20], [32], [40], [41], the use of client computing power [29], [35], [42], edge computing [23], [25], [31], [43], machine learning [36], [38], [44], [45], frame adaption [46], [47], and GPU-based server selection [48], [49]. Figure 3 presents the identified solutions along with the number of references cited to review them.…”

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“…As a result, they found that GAugur was able to improve the resource utilization of cloud gaming. In relation to the machine learning techniques used by Li et al [38], [44], Cai et al [45] applied cognitive computing to learn each cloud-based game player's status and also optimize resource allocation for different components of the game. Their experiments exhibited that better resource allocation leads to better performance and latency.…”

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An Overview of the Networking Issues of Cloud Gaming

Baldovino

2022

jinita

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With the increasing prevalence of video games comes innovations that aim to evolve them. Cloud gaming is poised as the next phase of gaming. It enables users to play video games on any internet-enabled device. Such improvement could, therefore, enhance the processing power of existing devices and solve the need to spend large amounts of money on the latest gaming equipment. However, others argue that it may be far from being practically functional. Since cloud gaming places dependency on networks, new issues emerge. In relation, this paper is a review of the networking perspective of cloud gaming. Specifically, the paper analyzes its issues and challenges along with possible solutions. In order to accomplish the study, a literature review was performed. Results show that there are numerous issues and challenges regarding cloud gaming networks. Generally, cloud gaming has problems with its network quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE). The poor QoS and QoE of cloud gaming can be linked to unsatisfactory latency, bandwidth, delay, packet loss, and graphics quality. Moreover, the cost of providing the service and the complexity of implementing cloud gaming were considered challenges. For these issues and challenges, solutions were found. The solutions include lag or latency compensation, compression with encoding techniques, client computing power, edge computing, machine learning, frame adaption, and GPU-based server selection. However, these have limitations and may not always be applicable. Thus, even if solutions exist, it would be beneficial to analyze the networking side of cloud gaming further.

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An Overview of the Networking Issues of Cloud Gaming

Baldovino

2022

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“…Cloud gaming attracts both players and game developers because of its vast advantages, two of those advantages are cloud gaming allows players to play the same game on different platforms and also enables game developers to support more platforms [5]. Moreover, UBC Games was proposed as a client-server cloud game where distributed execution of game components not into server only but to the client as well and included component-based cognitive ubiquitous gaming system [6]. Cloud gaming video using importance factor weighted peak signal-to-noise ratio (IFWPSNR) was proposed as an extension of weighted peak signal-to-noise ratio (WPSNR), where important factor (IF) table was created in three steps by creating a list of all the activities, list the objects in each activity and record all the gaze point for each object in each activity [7].…”

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Mobile cloud game in high performance computing environment

Kristiadi¹,

Sudarto²,

Rahardja

et al. 2020

TELKOMNIKA

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Mobile cloud game is a solution to play high-end games in indigent thin clients with a diversity of end-user devices, and as real-time gaming, mobile cloud game hosting game engines in the cloud. Moreover, frequent change in network quality is another issue that should be limited to run the real fast cloud game. Thus, reliable software components between cloud and user devices as clients, including using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms such as machine learning, deep learning and so on will enhance the game performance, particularly in multiplayer and real-time conditions. In this paper, we list the mobile cloud game architecture in the high-performance computing (HPC) environment, where a load of the game will be distributed between servers as cloud and clients. The server node as clouds or clients will consist of more than one server with many processors (cores) or sometimes can be recognized as distributed computing. Using HPC for cloud games will boost the game performance where the execution times will be dispersed not only in some node in servers and clients but in many cores of each server or client. The involvement of the internet of things (IoT) and ubiquitous access from heterogeneous devices will give benefit to enjoyment in the game itself.

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“…Cloud gaming [3] is related to a gaming BaaS that employs cloud computing services to achieve better gaming performance. First introduced in 2009 by Ross [4], cloud gaming enables workload distribution among numerous cloud servers and game clients.…”

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Cloudification of Virtual Reality Gliding Simulation Game

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Cloud gaming provides cloud computing-based game as a service. In this paper we describe the development of a virtual reality base gliding game as a proof-of-concept. In the cloud, a cloud gaming platform is hosted on cloud servers with two principal components: game logic engaged in the implementation of game mechanics and game interactions, and video renderer that generates the game frames in real-time. The virtual gliding game was realized in the Unity gaming engine. To ensure smooth playability, and access for remote players, the computationally-intensive parts of the game were offloaded to a physically remote cloud server. To analyze the efficiency of the client-cloud interaction, three cloud servers were setup. The results of cloudification were evaluated by measuring and comparing computation offloading performance, network traffic, the probability of service drop, perceptual quality and video quality.Information 2018, 9, 293 2 of 15 (GBaaS) and Game as a Service (GaaS) [6]. Mobile backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) allows game programmers to connect the backend of their software systems to the cloud, as well as to enable integration with social networks [7]. A player can interface with the cloud-hosted application using a thin client model, which controls the displaying of the game's video frames from the cloud server and for responding to the player's commands and responding back to the cloud [8]. These cloud services aim to provide powerful real-time tools specifically dedicated for gaming, with applications emerging in other areas, such as medicine, marketing and education as well.The characteristics of mobile devices recently were rising rapidly in terms of computational abilities, memory, features, and number of apps. However, mobile apps are still relatively inferior by bounded battery life, lack of stability of wireless communications, and prone-to-interruptions connections and constrained bandwidth, and lack of local storage and computing power. By relocating (off-loading) local device tasks to the cloud servers, efficient and ambient cloud services can be accomplished, thus guaranteeing cloud gaming ecosystems with a large number of mobile game players and mobile devices working remotely, but in coordination [9]. Since mobile devices have only limited memory and computational resources, information stored on local devices is synchronized with shared data centers, therefore the system's availability is a demanding factor.The problems faced by cloud gaming include the server provisioning problem [10], with the goal of slashing server running and data storage costs, as well as measuring and reducing the latency [11]. There is also some work focusing on graphics rendering and video encoding for network bandwidth reduction in the video transmission [12]. The cloud resource allocation problems in order to minimize the interaction latency among interactive clients were researched in Reference [13]. A promising approach utilized by many authors to mitigate cloud-related problems can by implemented by computati...

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UBCGaming: Ubiquitous Cloud Gaming System

Cited by 18 publications

References 20 publications

An Overview of the Networking Issues of Cloud Gaming

An Overview of the Networking Issues of Cloud Gaming

Mobile cloud game in high performance computing environment

Cloudification of Virtual Reality Gliding Simulation Game

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