Improving the Quality and Efficiency of 3 D Immersive Interactive Cloud Based Services by Providing an Adaptive Application Framework for Better Service Provisioning

Cloudifying 3D interactive multimedia applications is a promising way to provide flexible and cost efficient online high bandwidth immersive services to a large population of end users. One main reason cloud systems are popular among users is the fact that it relaxes the hardware requirements for high-end interactive visual applications. As most of the computational tasks are done on cloud servers, users no longer need to upgrade their hardware frequently to keep up with the ever increasing high end computing requirements of the latest applications. Moreover, cloud systems make it easier for a user to enjoy applications on different platforms, including mobile devices that are usually not powerful enough to run high-end, memory intensive services. In short, cloudifying high end immersive applications has advantages in cost efficiency and flexibility both for the end users and the service providers. There are two main drawbacks to cloudifying 3D interactive multimedia services: 1) latency and 2) high bandwidth utilization. We address these two problems in this paper.