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CCR
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Provisioning on-line games: a traffic analysis of a busy counter-strike server
This paper describes the results of a 500 million packet trace of a popular on-line, multi-player, game server. The results show that the traffic behavior of this heavily loaded ga...
Francis Chang, Wu-chang Feng, Wu-chi Feng, Jonatha...
NETGAMES
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
On the geographic distribution of on-line game servers and players
With a shift in the on-line gaming landscape from individually hosted game servers, to gaming services centrally hosted by game publishers, game console manufacturers, and third-p...
Wu-chang Feng, Wu-chi Feng
NETGAMES
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Dissecting server-discovery traffic patterns generated by multiplayer first person shooter games
We study the ‘background traffic’ resulting from tens of thousands of networked first person shooter (FPS) clients searching for servers on which to play. Networked, multiplay...
Sebastian Zander, David Kennedy, Grenville J. Armi...
NETGAMES
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A challenge for reusing multiplayer online games without modifying binaries
In this paper, we advocate the problem of reusing Multiplayer Online Game (MOG) in Client-Server (C/S) architecture. The problem is that MOG services cannot continue to be provide...
Yugo Kaneda, Hitomi Takahashi, Masato Saito, Hirot...
AICCSA
2006
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
The vMatrix: Equi-Ping Game Server Placement For Pre-Arranged First-Person-Shooter Multiplayer Matches
Today most multiplayer game servers are pre-located statically, which makes it hard for gamers to find equi-ping hosts for their matches. This is especially important for first per...
Amr Awadallah, Mendel Rosenblum
CCGRID
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Requirements of Peer-to-Peer-based Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming
Massively Multiplayer Online Games have become increasingly popular. However, their operation is costly, as game servers must be maintained. To reduce these costs, we aim at provi...
Gregor Schiele, Richard Süselbeck, Arno Wacke...