Journal
IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS AND TUTORIALS
Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages 1894-1925Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2022.3177251
Keywords
Games; Quality of experience; Quality of service; Taxonomy; Cloud gaming; Measurement; Tutorials; Communications technology; communication systems; quality of experience; quality of service; consumer electronics; multimedia systems; multimedia communication; communication system software; streaming media; systems; man; and cybernetics; man-machine systems; interactive systems
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Online video games and cloud gaming are increasing in popularity, but their resource demands and network conditions can affect the player's enjoyment. This highlights the need for considering video games in network dimensioning, server placement, and protocol development.
Online video games and cloud gaming are rapidly growing in pervasiveness. Their resource demands can put significant stress on the global communication infrastructure. And network conditions are amongst the chief factors that influence one's enjoyment while playing games. This makes it imperative for video games to be considered for network dimensioning, server placement or protocol development. For that reason, in this work we provide an introduction to the technical aspects of video games in general and of their network aspects in particular. This understanding forms the basis for a rich taxonomy of factors that influence and provide context to a video game's Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE). The taxonomy covers influence factors from all aspects involved in a video game, from the subjective player and game influence factors to the system and networking influence factors. Finally, this work gives an overview of conducted and ongoing research as well as future research opportunities while taking into account lessons learned from past approaches.
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