Network bandwidth increases make cloud-based gaming a promising alternative to traditional gaming. Network latency presents a challenge cloud-based gaming services must overcome to provide a comparable experience to traditional gaming. Measuring the effects of latency on quality of experience and player performance can help understand the capabilities of cloud-based gaming services. We conduct a cloud-based gaming user study, surveying user’s quality of experience and measuring their in-game performance and the services’ network characteristics. Analysis of results show a significant decrease in quality of experience and player performance as latency increases, but latency has little effect on the frame rate or average throughput of cloud-based gaming services.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• McManus, Jacob Patrick
• Mailloux, Zachary J.
• Day, Timothy George

Subject

• Culture
• Infrastructure
• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030619-165049

Stichwort

• Video games

Advisor

• Claypool, Mark L.

Year

• 2019

Date created

• 2019-03-06

Ort

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright