Enhanced Video Streaming for Remote 3D Gaming

Abstract: Computer games are getting continuously more demanding in terms of CPU and graphics performance. At the same time, mobile lifestyle and the always-on connected experience are becoming increasingly important to many people. They want to enjoy digital entertainment anywhere inside their homes and also on the go. Therefore low cost and modest performance consumer electronics (CE) devices are gaining high popularity, but providing the same high quality gaming experience on those devices is still a real challenge. This paper describes a novel gaming system, called Games@Large, which enables heavy PC game play on low cost CE devices without the need of game software modification. The key innovations of the system are distribution of game execution, streaming of graphics, video, audio, and game control as well as network quality of service management