Introduction

Abstract

The gaming industry created the largest market in the entertainment sector surpassing box-office and music industry. The growth of market increased the innovation on emergence of new and better services to users. Cloud gaming is a new service that recently emerged which is characterized by delivering game contents from a server to user through a network as a video stream. It requires a reliable and low-latency network, which makes it a very challenging service. Using a cloud gaming service with high latency would harm the user’s interaction with the game. However, the negative effect of delay on gaming QoE depends on various factors that this book provides a better understanding on them and proposes techniques to reduce this impact. This chapter, discusses the detailed motivation and the research questions of this book.