On the quality of service of cloud gaming systems

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 480-495

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

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cloud gaming; live video streaming; measurement; performance evaluation; remote rendering

Indexed keywords

CLOUD GAMINGS; LIVE VIDEO STREAMING; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; REMOTE RENDERING; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; USER-PERCEIVED QUALITY OF SERVICES; VENTURE CAPITALISTS;

COMPUTER GAMES; MEASUREMENTS; RESEARCH;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84893403991     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2013.2291532     Document Type: Article

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