Key research themes
1. How do network Quality of Service (QoS) parameters and their correlations impact Quality of Experience (QoE) in cloud gaming applications?
This research area focuses on understanding how various network QoS metrics, such as delay, jitter, and packet loss, individually and in correlated scenarios, affect the user-perceived Quality of Experience in cloud gaming. Given the interactive and real-time nature of cloud gaming, small degradations or correlations among network parameters can disproportionately impact gameplay responsiveness and video quality. Insights here are crucial for optimizing network configurations, designing emulators, and improving QoE prediction models tailored to cloud gaming environments.
2. What architectural and computational strategies optimize resource allocation and performance for cloud gaming in cloud and edge computing environments?
This theme investigates how cloud computing architectures, including GPU virtualization, resource scheduling algorithms, and edge computing distribution, can be designed or adapted to meet the high computational, latency, and bandwidth demands of cloud gaming. Technologies such as GPU-as-a-Service, hybrid cloud-edge architectures, and optimization algorithms address challenges in scalability, latency, and utilization efficiency, which are vital for rendering performance, streaming quality, and user interactivity in cloud gaming.
3. How do cloud gaming service architectures and models shape user experience, business models, and platform design?
This area encompasses the study of cloud gaming service paradigms including Remote Rendering GaaS, Local Rendering GaaS, and hybrid architectures, analyzing how these affect client capabilities, latency, scalability, and user experience. It also explores business impacts such as changes to distribution, subscription models, piracy mitigation, and device ubiquity enabled by cloud gaming. Understanding service architecture choices informs both technical implementations and commercial strategies that balance performance with market adoption and sustainability.