Thin to win? Network performance analysis of the OnLive thin client game system

Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Claypool, Mark ^a   Finkel, David ^a   Grant, Alexander ^a   Solano, Michael ^a  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BITRATES; CLIENT-TRAFFIC; COMPUTER GAME; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; GAME SYSTEM; LIVE VIDEO; NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; NETWORK PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PACKET SIZE; SERVER-BASED; STREAMING VIDEOS; THIN CLIENTS; TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS; TRAFFIC MODEL; USER ACTION;

NETWORK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84873442327     PISSN: 21568138     EISSN: 21568146     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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