Online video games and cloud gaming are rapidly growing in pervasiveness. Their resource
demands can put significant stress on the global communication infrastructure. And network …

We present a vision for the future of an emerging category of cloud service: the metaverse of
3D virtual worlds. Today, hundreds of millions of users are active daily in such worlds, but …

The historical motivation for serverless comes from internet-of-things, smartphone client
server, and the objective of simplifying programming (no provisioning) and scale-down (pay …

Massively Multi-player Online Games (MMOG) are characterized by intensive interactions
between many simultaneous users and real-time demands on Quality of Service (QoS) …

Distributed virtual environments (DVE), such as multi-player online games and distributed
simulations may involve a massive amount of concurrent clients. Deploying distributed …

Massively Multiplayer Online Games are considered large distributed systems where the
game state is partially replicated across the server and thousands of clients. Given the scale …

With the rise in population migration there has been an increased need for professional
interpreters who can bridge language barriers and operate in a variety of fields such as …

We consider a challenging class of highly interactive virtual environments, also known as
Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA). Popular examples of ROIA include multi …

Sparse representations have successfully been exploited for the development of highly
accurate classifiers. Unfortunately, these classifiers are computationally intensive and …

Fast-paced action online games like First Person Shooters (FPS) pose high demands on
resources and thus require multi-server architectures in order to scale to higher player …