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

Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Choy, Sharon ^a   Wong, Bernard ^a   Simon, Gwendal ^b   Rosenberg, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES; CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; CORE DESIGN; DATA CENTERS; END-USERS; FAST MEMORY; GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTING; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS; LARGE-SCALE MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT STUDY; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; ON-DEMAND GAMINGS; POTENTIAL USERS; SPECIALIZED HARDWARE; VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY; WEB APPLICATION;

CLOUD COMPUTING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84873461516     PISSN: 21568138     EISSN: 21568146     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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