GamingAnywhere: The first open source cloud gaming system

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 1 SUPPL, 2014, Pages

  Huang, Chun Ying ^a   Chen, Kuan Ta ^b   Chen, De Yu ^b   Hsu, Hwai Jung ^b   Hsu, Cheng Hsin ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cloud games; Live video streaming; Performance evaluation; Performance optimization; Real time encoding; Remote rendering

Indexed keywords

LIVE VIDEO STREAMING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; REAL-TIME ENCODING; REMOTE RENDERING;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893227972     PISSN: 15516857     EISSN: 15516865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2537855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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