2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames)最新文献

Managing power for closed-source android os games by lightweight graphics instrumentation 通过轻量级图形工具管理闭源android os游戏的功率

2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames) Pub Date : 2012-11-22 DOI: 10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404014

Benedikt Dietrich, S. Chakraborty

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引用次数: 20

Massively Multiplayer Online Games on unreliable resources 大型多人在线游戏在不可靠的资源

2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames) Pub Date : 2012-11-22 DOI: 10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404020

Vlad Nae, Lukas Köpfle, R. Prodan, A. Iosup

引用次数: 1

An empirical study of Cloud Gaming 云游戏的实证研究

2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames) Pub Date : 2012-11-22 DOI: 10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404021

M. Manzano, J. Hernández, M. Urueña, E. Calle

引用次数: 47

The Game Trace Archive 游戏追踪档案

2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames) Pub Date : 2012-11-22 DOI: 10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404027

Yong Guo, A. Iosup

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引用次数: 49

Reducing Server Load in MMOG via P2P Gossip 通过P2P八卦减少MMOG中的服务器负载

2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames) Pub Date : 2012-11-22 DOI: 10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404015

E. Carlini, L. Ricci, M. Coppola

引用次数: 20

Thin to win? Network performance analysis of the OnLive thin client game system 想赢吗?OnLive瘦客户端游戏系统的网络性能分析

2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames) Pub Date : 2012-11-22 DOI: 10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404013

M. Claypool, D. Finkel, Alexander Grant, Michael Solano

{"title":"Thin to win? Network performance analysis of the OnLive thin client game system","authors":"M. Claypool, D. Finkel, Alexander Grant, Michael Solano","doi":"10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404013","url":null,"abstract":"The growth in network bitrates and server-based processing has provided a renewed opportunity for thin client games, where the server does heavy-weight computations, sending only the visual game frames to the client, and the client displays frames, sending only the user actions to the server. Understanding the traffic characteristics of thin client games is important for building traffic models and classifiers and planning network infrastructures to meet future demand. This paper provides the first detailed study of the network characteristics of OnLive, a commercially available thin client game system. Carefully designed experiments measure OnLive game traffic for several game genres, analyzing the bitrates, packet sizes and inter-packet times for both upstream and downstream game traffic, with comparisons to traditional game clients and streaming video. Results indicate OnLive rapidly sends large packets downstream, similar but still significantly different than live video. OnLive less frequently sends much smaller packets upstream, significantly different than traditional game client traffic. The results should be a useful beginning for building effective traffic models and classifiers, and for preparing end-host networks to support this upcoming generation of computer games.","PeriodicalId":279768,"journal":{"name":"2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132264628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 86

SMOG: A cloud platform for seamless wide area migration of online games SMOG:网络游戏无缝广域迁移云平台

2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames) Pub Date : 2012-11-22 DOI: 10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404031

Virajith Jalaparti, M. Caesar, Seungjoon Lee, Jeffrey Pang, J. Merwe

{"title":"SMOG: A cloud platform for seamless wide area migration of online games","authors":"Virajith Jalaparti, M. Caesar, Seungjoon Lee, Jeffrey Pang, J. Merwe","doi":"10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404031","url":null,"abstract":"Highly interactive network applications such as online games are rapidly growing in popularity but remain challenging for game providers to support, due to their inherent need for low latency. While cloud computing has proven a useful infrastructure for other applications, existing cloud computing facilities are insufficient for games, due to the unpredictability of their workload, their demands on latency and scale, and the need to support game-specific requirements (e.g., players may wish to play with certain other players already in the game). In this work, we explore whether dynamic optimization of latency and scaling of games can be achieved by supplementing cloud computing infrastructure with seamless wide area virtual machine migration using network based route control. We propose SMOG, a framework that dynamically migrates game servers to their optimal location, and uses orchestrated route control to optimize the network path to the server to minimize observable effects of live server migration. Through deployment of a prototype implementation on a Tier-1 ISP's backbone and a user study, we found SMOG can decrease average end-user latency by up to 60% while performing migration in a manner transparent to game players. While this paper's focus is online games, SMOG is general enough to be used for a variety of latency-sensitive interactive applications such as video conferencing and interactive video streaming.","PeriodicalId":279768,"journal":{"name":"2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121269448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 12

The brewing storm in cloud gaming: A measurement study on cloud to end-user latency 云游戏中的酝酿风暴:云对终端用户延迟的测量研究

2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames) Pub Date : 2012-11-22 DOI: 10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404024

Sharon Choy, B. Wong, G. Simon, C. Rosenberg

{"title":"The brewing storm in cloud gaming: A measurement study on cloud to end-user latency","authors":"Sharon Choy, B. Wong, G. Simon, C. Rosenberg","doi":"10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404024","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing has been a revolutionary force in changing the way organizations deploy web applications and services. However, many of cloud computing's core design tenets, such as consolidating resources into a small number of datacenters and fine-grain partitioning of general purpose computing resources, conflict with an emerging class of multimedia applications that is highly latency sensitive and requires specialized hardware, such as graphic processing units (GPUs) and fast memory. In this paper, we look closely at one such application, namely, on-demand gaming (also known as cloud gaming), that has the potential to radically change the multi-billion dollar video game industry. We demonstrate through a large-scale measurement study that the current cloud computing infrastructure is unable to meet the strict latency requirements necessary for acceptable game play for many end-users, thus limiting the number of potential users for an on-demand gaming service. We further investigate the impact of augmenting the current cloud infrastructure with servers located near the end-users, such as those found in content distribution networks, and show that the user coverage significantly increases even with the addition of only a small number of servers.","PeriodicalId":279768,"journal":{"name":"2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129020660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 184

Follow the mob: An innovative approach for roaming characters in MMO games 跟随人群:MMO游戏中漫游角色的创新方法

2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames) Pub Date : 2012-11-22 DOI: 10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404017

D. Maggiorini, S. Panzeri, L. Ripamonti, J. Ikonen

引用次数: 0

Are all games equally cloud-gaming-friendly? An electromyographic approach 是否所有游戏都同样适合云游戏?肌电图方法

2012 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames) Pub Date : 2012-11-22 DOI: 10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404025

Yeng-Ting Lee, Kuan-Ta Chen, Han-I Su, C. Lei

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引用次数: 103