Mobile Cloud Convergence in GaaS: A Business Model Proposition

Author

Moreno, Christina ; Tizon, Nicolas ; Preda, Marius

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Jan. 2012

Firstpage

1344

Lastpage

1352

Abstract

The two most important drivers of today´s telecommunication market are the development of mobile services and cloud computing. These two trends converge in cloud mobile services what is called cloud gaming. The challenges of delivering mobile cloud applications are not only on the technical side, they also concern the implementation of the accurate business model. The Kusanagi project is an end-to-end infrastructure to deliver Gaming as a Service (GaaS). This paper proposes the construction of a Business Model based on the presentation of a Cloud gaming project intended to evolve with the maturation of the technology and its market.

Keywords

cloud computing; computer games; mobile computing; GaaS; Kusanagi project; accurate business model; business model proposition; cloud computing; cloud gaming project; cloud mobile services; end-to-end infrastructure; gaming as a service; mobile cloud applications; mobile cloud convergence; telecommunication market; Business; Cloud computing; Computational modeling; Games; Mobile handsets; Three dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Science (HICSS), 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Maui, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1925-7

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2012.433

Filename

6149048