Balancing Cloud and Mobile Terminal: An Empirical Study on Decomposed Cloud Gaming

Decomposed cloud gaming is a novel paradigm to deliver gaming as a service to mobile terminals. In such a system, video games are decomposed into software components that are cognitive to players' behavior and execution environments in both cloud and mobile devices. However, in order to balance the workload distribution between cloud and mobile terminals in a real system, there are still a number of questions to be answered, which requires empirical studies with detailed measurement and analysis. In this work, we identify these questions and answer them by measuring the execution and networking performance data from a tank game prototype in our test-bed. Based on our observations on the affecting factors on the system performance, we design and implement the cognitive capacity for the system to dynamically adapt its service to different terminals and networks.