Cloud game streaming allows a game to be run on a server and streamed over the Internet to a lightweight client that plays the game like a video. This setup is sensitive to delay in the network and network jitter that can cause frame jitter, which produces visible interrupts in the playout, affecting quality of experience. To address this, we added a client-side playout buffer to open-source streaming software, which stores frames to smooth out network jitter. Then we created several algorithms that regulated the size of this buffer to protect against jitter. We tested our system on a streaming testbed setup by introducing delay jitter. We found that having a frame buffer and a queue monitoring system lowered frame jitter with controlled amounts of delay.

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Creator

• Heineman, Nicholas
• Nguyen, Aaron
• Ryan, William
• Liang, Yu-Chi

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042524-232809
• 121853

Keyword

• Game Streaming
• Moonlight
• Cloud Gaming
• Buffer
• Jitter

Advisor

• Claypool, Mark L.

Year

• 2024

Date created

• 2024-04-25

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Source

• E-project-042524-232809

Rights statement

• In Copyright