Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

10-2021

Abstract

Cloud gaming enables people playing graphically intensive games from their less powerful, or even outdated computing devices. It is challenging to realize cloud gaming as it requires minimal latency in server-side processing, rendering and streaming, which are expensive in terms of resource requirements, e.g., powerful GPU servers. Commercial gaming providers, e.g., Google Stadia, Amazon Luna, etc., hardly disclose any information on how they optimize gaming performance and cloud cost. In this work, we aim to investigate resource cost optimization for such cloud gaming systems. In contrast to previous work which have been focusing more on theoretical approaches, we deliver a fully functional, cost-optimized cloudnative gaming system, called CloudNPlay, implemented entirely on AWS Lambda, EC2 and other AWS services. We have conducted extensive evaluations on the gaming performance including latency and frame rates; as well as cloud resource cost reduction. The results indicate that games hosted on CloudNPlay are highly playable. More importantly, CloudNPlay reduces the resource cost by around 24% compared to a non-optimized deployment. We plan to open-source CloudNPlay to facilitate further research in cloud gaming.

Keywords

cloud gaming, video streaming, latency, cost optimization

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises WETICE: Bayonne, France, 27-29 October: Proceedings

First Page

33

Last Page

38

ISBN

9781665427890

Identifier

10.1109/WETICE53228.2021.00018

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

City or Country

Los Alamitos, CA

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE53228.2021.00018

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