Title :
Assignment of games to servers in the OnLive cloud game system
Author :
Finkel, David ; Claypool, Mark ; Jaffe, Sam ; Nguyen, Thin ; Stephen, Brendan
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Worcester Polytech. Inst., Worcester, MA, USA
Abstract :
OnLive is a thin-client, cloud-based, video game streaming service. As part of their service, OnLive must distribute game content to their servers in a manner that provides good performance for the players while using hardware resources effectively. In order to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of their game distribution strategies, we built a simulator for OnLive´s service and modeled their current game distribution strategy. Using a hill-climbing algorithm, we constructed game distribution strategies with improved abilities to meet customer demand while significantly reducing disk space requirements.
Keywords :
cloud computing; computer games; optimisation; OnLive cloud game system; game assignment; game distribution strategy; hill-climbing algorithm; video game streaming service; Computational modeling; Distribution strategy; Games; Hardware; Optimization; Radio access networks; Servers; cloud-based gaming; server distribution; thin client;
Conference_Titel :
Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames), 2014 13th Annual Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Nagoya
DOI :
10.1109/NetGames.2014.7008958
