The server allocation problem for session-based multiplayer cloud gaming

• Main Authors: Deng, Yunhua, Li, Yusen, Seet, Ronald, Tang, Xueyan, Cai, Wentong
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Multiplayer Online Game; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Cloud Gaming
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90123; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48395
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Advances in cloud computing and GPU virtualization are allowing the game industry to move into a cloud gaming era. In this paper, we consider multiplayer cloud gaming (MCG), which is the natural integration of multiplayer online gaming and cloud gaming paradigms. With MCG, a game server and a set of...