ARM 為基底的高性價比雲端遊戲服務

Abstract

雲端行動裝置遊戲致力於提供使用者在不同設備上直接玩行動裝置遊戲。因為手機遊戲變得熱門, 越來越多的使用者花費大量的時間與金錢在行動裝置遊 戲上以及升級行動裝置的硬體來達到遊戲的運算需求。因此, 雲端行動裝置遊戲被提出來節省使用者的硬體成本。 然而, 效能與建置行動裝置遊戲服務的成本對於提供服務的營運商是很重要的考量因素, 這兩個因素讓營運商的服務更有競爭力, 提供使用者高品質的遊 戲體驗和負擔的起的服務價格。因此我們提出混和式雲端行動裝置遊戲框架, 結合了傳統的雲端行動裝置遊戲架構並且使用動態控制的方法來降低整體的 成本與電力消耗, 同時維持優良的使用者體驗。 本論文詳細描述了混合式雲端行動裝置遊戲的設計與實作細節, 並藉由導入一些案例研究來展示其優點。實驗結果展現出本論文提出的框架能夠節省雲端 行動裝置遊戲服務的建置與管理成本。

Cloud mobile gaming (CMG) aims to provide end users friction-less and direct play-ability of mobile games across various devices. As mobile devices become popular, more and more users spend lots of time and money in playing mobile games and updating their mobile devices to meet the increasing resource requirements of new games. With a CMG service, it is possible to save the hardware purchase for the users. However, the performance and the cost of building a CMG service are two critical factors for the service provider to compete in the business and provide the users with good gaming experiences and affordable service. Thus, we proposed a power-efficient hybrid cloud mobile gaming (HCMG) service framework, which combines a several traditional CMG infrastructures and uses a dynamic control method to reduce the total cost and energy consumption while maintaining good user experiences. This thesis describes the design and implementation of HCMG with case studies to evaluate the proposed framework. The results show that our framework is able to save the building and operating costs for CMG service providers.