Latency Reduction and Input Prediction for Cloud Gaming Clients

Title

Latency Reduction and Input Prediction for Cloud Gaming Clients

Creator

Payankan, Gavin George; Singal, Neha; Saxena, Surabhi

Description

Cloud gaming enables access to high-quality games on thin clients by streaming rendered content from remote servers, but network-induced latency remains a critical barrier to responsive gameplay. This paper presents a browser-based system that profiles user input in real-time, employs a lightweight machine learning model to predict actions, and dynamically compensates for lag by speculative input. Our solution reduces perceived lag by up to 25% and maintains a 94%+ prediction accuracy, fully within a free-tier cloud environment. Compared to traditional infrastructure-based approaches, our method imposes no proprietary hardware requirements and offers platform-wide scalability. 2025 IEEE.

Source

Proceedings - 2025 International Conference on Transformative Computing Technologies, ICTCT 2025;pp.30-34

Date

01-01-2025

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Subject

browser-based; clientside; cloud gaming; input prediction; latency; real-time systems

Coverage

Payankan G.G., Christ University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bengaluru, India; Singal N., Christ University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bengaluru, India; Saxena S., Christ University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library

Relation

ISBN: 979-833159195-3;

Format

online

Language

English

Type

Conference paper

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTCT69201.2025.00023

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