Mobile Cloud Gaming: Issues and Challenges

Soliman, Omar S.; Rezgui, Abdelmounaam; Soliman, Hamdy; Manea, Najib

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40276-0_10

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“…Offloading requires more complex software engineering, it can introduce latency that slows down rather than speeds up the game, consume rather than spare power, and cost extra overall resources to maintain the offloading infrastructure. This is confirmed by earlier approaches to offloading, which so far have led to insufficient performance for the requirements of sophisticated modern games or only work for simple games . Addressing these challenges is crucial if we are to actually profit from offloading, which is the goal of this work.…”

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confidence: 59%

“…offloading infrastructure. This is confirmed by earlier approaches to offloading, [4][5][6] which so far have led to insufficient performance for the requirements of sophisticated modern games [6][7][8] or only work for simple games. [9][10][11] Addressing these challenges is crucial if we are to actually profit from offloading, which is the goal of this work.…”

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“…Out of the many cloud gaming systems that existed over the years, only a few remain such as StreamMyGame and GamingAnywhere . The exact reason for why commercial cloud gaming systems have not been very successful is outside the scope of this article, but at least from a technical point of view, cloud gaming systems are very sensitive to network latency and package loss, both of which are problems inherent to the Internet. Although offloading is influenced by these same problems, it is less sensitive to them.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A mirroring architecture for sophisticated mobile games using computation‐offloading

Jiang

Visser

Prasetya

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Concurrency and Computation

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SummaryMobile gaming is already a popular and lucrative market. However, the low performance and reduced power capacity of mobile devices severely limit the complexity of mobile games and the duration of their game sessions. To mitigate these issues, in this article, we explore using computation-offloading, that is, allowing the compute-intensive parts of mobile games to execute on remote infrastructure. Computation-offloading raises the combined challenge of addressing the trade-offs between performance and power-consumption while also keeping the game playable. We propose Mirror, a system for computation-offloading that supports the demanding performance requirements of sophisticated mobile games. Mirror proposes several conceptual contributions: support for fine-grained partitioning, both offline (set by developers) and dynamic (policy-based), and real-time asynchronous offloading and user-input synchronization protocols that enable Mirror-based systems to bound the delays introduced by offloading and thus to achieve adequate performance. Mirror is compatible with all games that are tick-based and user-input deterministic. We implement a real-world prototype of Mirror and apply it to the real-world, complex, popular game OpenTTD. The experimental results show that, in comparison with the non-offloaded OpenTTD, Mirror-ed OpenTTD can significantly improve performance and power consumption while also delivering smooth gameplay. As a trade-off, Mirror introduces acceptable delay on user inputs. KEYWORDScloud offloading, computation-offloading, fine-grained offloading, mirrored computation, offloading mobile games, offloading policies, system architecture INTRODUCTIONThe mobile gaming market offers services to over 2 billion gamers, generating yearly over $100 billion and over 40% of the lucrative gaming industry. 1However, mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets have limited computational power and power supply, which severely limit the complexity of mobile games and the scale of online gaming sessions. The battery life can be depleted very quickly by a combination of, for example, heavy computations or network and camera usage, 2 which indicates that traditional sophisticated games cannot yet run long on mobile platforms. With sophisticated games, we mean games that have complex gameplay mechanics. These games can often have a high number of game objects in the game world at the same time with many possible interactions between these objects and the user. This makes these games a challenge to run smoothly on resource-constrained mobile devices and to be able to play them without rapidly depleting the device's battery. A potential approach to mitigate these problems is through computation-offloading, that is, letting remote machines run the compute-intensive parts of mobile games and letting the mobile clients only receive the results. Computation-offloading promises to free up local resources on the mobile client and possibly save much of its valuable battery power. 3 However, offloading also raises new ...

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A mirroring architecture for sophisticated mobile games using computation‐offloading

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Prasetya

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“…Cloud gaming issues and challenges that have to be addressed relate mainly to technology and infrastructure [4], such as user responsiveness, audio/video quality, service quality, operating cost, game adaptation, and limited battery capacity [5], [6]. Mobile device energy consumption represents an ongoing issue in mobile cloud gaming as there is significant workload with streaming the video game over the wireless network.…”

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Energy consumption analysis of cloud-based video games streaming to mobile devices

Ghergulescu

Moldovan

Muntean

2015

2015 IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting

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Within the growing of the gaming industry and mobile technologies, cloud-based video games streaming to mobile devices gains popularity fast. However, several issues and challenges such as user responsiveness, video quality, service quality, operating cost and energy consumption have to be addressed. Previous research studies did not thoroughly investigate the energy consumption of mobile devices used for cloud gaming. This paper focuses on how mobile device energy consumption is impacted by video game content characteristics, transmission protocol and wireless network type. The results show that game content characteristics impact energy consumption (i.e., up to 47% between games at maximum brightness for OLED screens), UDP is more energy efficient than TCP (i.e., up to 13.6%), while WiFi is more energy efficient than 3G (i.e., up to 40%). The outcome of this study can provide beneficial input for adaptive energy efficient cloud-based video games streaming mechanisms.

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“…Rendering the game on the server and streaming a recording of it to the player's mobile device over the Internet takes significant workload out of the device. However, new issues and challenges have to be addressed in terms of various aspects such as user responsiveness, audio/video quality, service quality, operating cost or game adaptation [5], [6].…”

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Energy-aware Adaptive Multimedia for Game-based e-learning

Ghergulescu

Moldovan

Muntean

2014

2014 IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting

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Abstract-Thanks to their motivational potential, video games have started to be increasingly used for e-learning. However, as e-learning gradually shifts towards mobile learning, there is a growing need for innovative techniques to deliver rich learning material such as educational games to resource-constrained devices. In particular, the limited battery capacity of mobile devices stands out as a key issue that can significantly limit players' access to educational games. This paper proposes an Energy-aware Adaptive Multimedia Game-based E-learning (EAMGBL) framework that aims to enable energy-efficient educational games delivery to mobile devices over wireless networks. The framework builds on top of the idea to render the game on the server side and stream a recording of it to the player's device over the Internet. To reduce the mobile device energy consumption and enable the player to play for longer, the proposed framework proposes to adapt both the educational game elements as well as the game's recorded multimedia stream.

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Mobile Cloud Gaming: Issues and Challenges

Cited by 18 publications

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A mirroring architecture for sophisticated mobile games using computation‐offloading

A mirroring architecture for sophisticated mobile games using computation‐offloading

Energy consumption analysis of cloud-based video games streaming to mobile devices

Energy-aware Adaptive Multimedia for Game-based e-learning

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