A geographic redirection service for on-line games

For many on-line games, user experience is impacted significantly by network latency. As on-line games and on-line game servers proliferate, the ability to discover and connect to nearby servers is essential for maintaining user satisfaction. In this paper, we present a redirection service for on-line games based on the geographic location of players relative to servers. As our results show, the service better meets client demand, saving each client and the Internet as a whole, thousands of miles of networking inefficiency. Categories and Subject Descriptors C.2.4 [Computer-Communication Networks]: Distributed Systems—Distributed Applications ; K.8.0 [Personal Computing]: General—Games General Terms Performance, Management, Measurement

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: MM
• Authors: Chris Chambers, Wu-chi Feng, Wu-chang Feng, Debanjan Saha
• Keywords: Meets Client Demand, MM 2003, On-line Game Servers, On-line Games