Quality-of-Experience Optimization for a Cloud Gaming System with Ad Hoc Cloudlet Assistance

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2092-2104

  Cai, Wei ^a   Hong, Zhen ^a   Wang, Xiaofei ^a   Chan, Henry C B ^b   Leung, Victor C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cloud gaming; cooperative; encoding; optimization; quality of experience (QoE)

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPLEX NETWORKS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

CLOUD GAMINGS; COOPERATIVE; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; NETWORK QUALITY OF SERVICES; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION; USERS' EXPERIENCES; VIDEO TRANSMISSIONS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84960495261     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2015.2450153     Document Type: Article

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