TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison of Static and Dynamic Resource Allocations for Massively Multiplayer Online Games on Unreliable Resources
AU - Prodan, Radu
AU - Iosup, Alexandru
AU - Bologa, Cristian
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We investigate the use of a new Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) ecosystem consisting of end-users, game providers, game operators, and Cloud resource providers, for autonomous, selfadaptive hosting and operation of MMOGs on unreliable resources. For this purpose, we developed an MMOG simulator compliant with our MMOG ecosystem in which we inject traces collected from a real-world MMOG and resource characteristics from 16 Cloud providers. Using our simulator, we study the impact on the involved actors by considering different resource availability levels, and highlight the advantages of dynamic resource allocation over the static overprovisioning with respect to two types of metrics: QoS offered to the clients and financial profit of game providers and operators.
AB - We investigate the use of a new Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) ecosystem consisting of end-users, game providers, game operators, and Cloud resource providers, for autonomous, selfadaptive hosting and operation of MMOGs on unreliable resources. For this purpose, we developed an MMOG simulator compliant with our MMOG ecosystem in which we inject traces collected from a real-world MMOG and resource characteristics from 16 Cloud providers. Using our simulator, we study the impact on the involved actors by considering different resource availability levels, and highlight the advantages of dynamic resource allocation over the static overprovisioning with respect to two types of metrics: QoS offered to the clients and financial profit of game providers and operators.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-14325-5_26
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-14325-5_26
M3 - Article
SN - 0302-9743
VL - 8805
SP - 299
EP - 310
JO - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
JF - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
IS - Part 1
T2 - International Workshops on Parallel Processing Workshops, Euro-Par 2014
Y2 - 25 August 2014 through 26 August 2014
ER -