The brewing storm in cloud gaming: A measurement study on cloud to end-user latency

Choy, Sharon; Wong, Bernard; Simon, Gwendal; Rosenberg, Catherine

doi:10.1109/netgames.2012.6404024

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“…Additionally, we discover that a substantial increase in the total number of datacenters is required to significantly increase user coverage. These results, originally presented in [19], suggest that the existing cloud infrastructure is a poor platform for hosting highly latencysensitive applications, as a sizeable portion of the population would experience significantly degraded quality of service. Furthermore, we find that number of served end-users increases by 28% when we add to the cloud a small number of edge servers that are co-located at Internet service provider (ISP) sites as part of a content distribution network (CDN) deployment [19].…”

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“…Since existing technologies are not suitable to satisfy the requirements of on-demand gaming, we proposed in [19] to use edge servers, particularly CDN servers, to serve on-demand gaming end-users in order to reduce network latency. CDN providers such as Akamai [40] also use edge servers in order to provide their customers with greater performance and reliability for their Internet applications.…”

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“…In this work, we build on our previous findings in [19] and explore in detail alternative infrastructures such as an edge-server only deployment and a datacenter and edge-server hybrid deployment. We compare these two alternative infrastructures to a datacenter only deployment (i.e.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Overall, this work builds on our work in [19] and makes three new contributions. Firstly, we compare various infrastructures (datacenter-only, edge-server only, and hybrid) and determine their effectiveness at serving end-users.…”

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A hybrid edge-cloud architecture for reducing on-demand gaming latency

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The cloud was originally designed to provide general purpose computing using commodity hardware and its focus was on increasing resource consolidation as a means to lower cost. Hence, it was not particularly adapted to the requirements of multimedia applications that are highly latency sensitive and require specialized hardware, such as graphical processing units.Existing cloud infrastructure is dimensioned to serve general purpose workloads and to meet end-user requirements by providing high throughput. In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of using this general-purpose infrastructure for serving latency-sensitive multimedia applications. In particular, we examine on-demand gaming, also known as cloud gaming, which has the potential to change the video game industry. We demonstrate through a large-scale measurement study that the existing cloud infrastructure is unable to meet the strict latency requirements that is necessary for acceptable on-demand game play. Furthermore, we investigate the effectiveness of incorporating edge servers, which are servers located near end-users (e.g. CDN servers), to improve end-user coverage. Specifically, we examine an edge-server only infrastructure and a hybrid infrastructure that consists of using edge servers in addition to the cloud. We find that a hybrid infrastructure significantly improves the number of end-users served. However, the number of satisfied end-users in a hybrid deployment largely depends on the various deployment parameters. Therefore, we evaluate various strategies that determine two such parameters, namely, the location of on-demand gaming servers and the games that are placed on these servers. We find that, through both a careful selection of on-demand gaming servers and the games to place on these servers, we significantly increase the number of end-users served over the basic random selection and placement strategies.

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“…The objective of Mutual-benefits algorithm is to find the balance of relation between server-benefits (GPU usage) and client-benefits (Render resolution), which are the linear relation due to many works state on [9][10][11][12][13][14]. In this regard, we can plot a linear relationship between game workload and resolution as a linear graph shown in Fig.…”

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Hybrid Method for Adaptive Cloud Gaming Contents

Jitpukdeebodintra

Witosurapot

2015

GSTF J Comput

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Abstract-Methods for adapting cloud gaming content can be divided according to client-or server-returned benefits. In this paper, we argue that the better method should be performed in such a way that both client and server should share common benefits. By working on a cooperative scheme, the basic of trans-rendering and trans-scaling mechanism are proposed to work together for obtaining better utilizations of network bandwidth and graphic processor altogether. Based on our experiments of running cloud gaming services in simulated environment, we show many evidences that significantly improved benefits can be obtained as planned. Our proposed hybrid adaptation method is therefore clearly helpful for the game research community.

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CEBOW: A Cloud‐Edge‐Browser Online Web3D approach for visualizing large BIM scenes

Zhao

Zhang

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Computer Animation & Virtual

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With the mobile technology continues to grow and evolve, the technology of presenting building information modeling (BIM) with an online platform has become an important application in the fields of civil engineering, architecture, and computer visualization. However, due to network bandwidth and browser performance limitations, it was difficult to display large‐scale BIM scenes in a flawless manner on mobile browsers. CEBOW, a Cloud‐Edge‐Browser Online architecture for visualizing BIM components with online solutions, is proposed in this article. The method combines transmission scheduling, cache management, and optimal initial loading into a single system architecture. For network transmission testing, BIM scenes are used, and the results show that our method effectively reduces scene loading time and networking delay while improving the visualization effect of large‐scale scenes.

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The brewing storm in cloud gaming: A measurement study on cloud to end-user latency

Cited by 136 publications

References 16 publications

A hybrid edge-cloud architecture for reducing on-demand gaming latency

A hybrid edge-cloud architecture for reducing on-demand gaming latency

Hybrid Method for Adaptive Cloud Gaming Contents

CEBOW: A Cloud‐Edge‐Browser Online Web3D approach for visualizing large BIM scenes

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