Applying database replication to multi-player online games

Multi-player Online Games (MOGs) have emerged as popular data intensive applications in recent years. Being used by many players simultaneously, they require a high degree of fault tolerance, scalability and performance. In this paper we analyze how database replication can be used in MOGs to achieve these goals. In data replication, clients can read data from any database replica while updates have to be executed at all available replicas. Thus, reads can be distributed among the replicas leading to reduced response time and scalability. Furthermore, the system is fault-tolerant as long as a replica is available. However, we are not aware of any previous study on the application of database replication to MOG. In this paper, we present a system, MiddleSIR, which provides database replication support. We illustrate different replication protocols implemented in the system along an example, explaining how data consistency and fault tolerance can be achieved. From there, we design a sm...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: NETGAMES
• Authors: Yi Lin, Bettina Kemme, Marta Patiño-Martínez, Ricardo Jiménez-Peris
• Keywords: Computer Networks, Database Replication, Fault Tolerance, NETGAMES 2006, Replication Protocols