Paper Info
Title
GamingAnywhere: an open cloud gaming system
Abstract
Cloud gaming is a promising application of the rapidly expanding cloud computing infrastructure. Existing cloud gaming systems, however, are closed-source with proprietary protocols, which raises the bars to setting up testbeds for experiencing cloud games. In this paper, we present a complete cloud gaming system, called GamingAnywhere, which is to the best of our knowledge the first open cloud gaming system. In addition to its openness, we design GamingAnywhere for high extensibility, portability, and reconfigurability. We implement GamingAnywhere on Windows, Linux, and OS X, while its client can be readily ported to other OS's, including iOS and Android. We conduct extensive experiments to evaluate the performance of GamingAnywhere, and compare it against two well-known cloud gaming systems: OnLive and StreamMyGame. Our experimental results indicate that GamingAnywhere is efficient and provides high responsiveness and video quality. For example, GamingAnywhere yields a per-frame processing delay of 34 ms, which is 3+ and 10+ times shorter than OnLive and StreamMyGame, respectively. Our experiments also reveal that all these performance gains are achieved without the expense of higher network loads. The proposed GamingAnywhere can be employed for setting up cloud gaming testbeds, which, we believe, will stimulate more research innovations on cloud gaming systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2483977.2483981
MMSys
Keywords
Field
DocType
cloud game,proposed gaminganywhere,cloud gaming system,complete cloud gaming system,cloud gaming,cloud computing infrastructure,existing cloud gaming system,cloud gaming testbed,well-known cloud gaming system,open cloud gaming system
Reconfigurability,Android (operating system),Proprietary protocol,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Cloud gaming,Porting,Software portability,OS X,Operating system,Cloud computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
99
4.52
18
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chun-Ying Huang158939.51
Cheng-Hsin Hsu299181.56
Yu-Chun Chang344825.55
Kuan-Ta Chen41896136.86