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GamingAnywhere: The first open source cloud gaming system

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Chun-Ying Huang,

Cheng-Hsin HsuAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Volume 10, Issue 1s

Article No.: 10, Pages 1 - 25

https://doi.org/10.1145/2537855

Published: 05 January 2014 Publication History

Abstract

We present the first open source cloud gaming system, called GamingAnywhere. In addition to its openness, we have designed, GamingAnywhere for high extensibility, portability, and reconfigurability. We implemented it on Windows, Linux, OS X, and Android. We conducted extensive experiments to evaluate its performance. Our experimental results indicate that GamingAnywhere is efficient, scalable, adaptable to network conditions, and achieves high responsiveness and streaming quality. GamingAnywhere can be employed by researchers, game developers, service providers, and end users for setting up cloud gaming testbeds, which we believe, will stimulate more research into innovations for cloud gaming systems and applications.

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ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications Volume 10, Issue 1s

Special issue of best papers of ACM MMSys 2013 and ACM NOSSDAV 2013

January 2014

137 pages

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Published: 05 January 2014

Accepted: 01 October 2013

Revised: 01 September 2013

Received: 01 May 2013

Published in TOMM Volume 10, Issue 1s

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