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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
168views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
Database research in computer games
This tutorial presents an overview of the data management issues faced by computer games today. While many games do not use databases directly, they still have to process large am...
Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Christoph Koch, B...
ICC
2007
IEEE
161views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Optimizing Multiplayer Gaming Protocols for Heterogeneous Network Environment
— The paper is concerned with a novel adaptive game server protocol optimization to combat network latencies in the case of heterogeneous network environment. In this way, game p...
Zsolt Kenesi, Gábor Kiss, János Leve...
NETGAMES
2005
ACM
14 years 2 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...
EL
2002
181views more  EL 2002»
13 years 8 months ago
Aspects of networking in multiplayer computer games
Distributed, real-time multiplayer computer games (MCGs) are in the vanguard of utilizing the networking possibilities. Although related research have been done in military simulat...
Jouni Smed, Timo Kaukoranta, Harri Hakonen
IE
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Speaking in character: using voice-over-IP to communicate within MMORPGs
While voice-over-IP has long been favoured as a communication medium by players of team-based online shooter games, it has recently also been appropriated by players of MMORPGs, a...
Greg Wadley, Martin R. Gibbs, Peter Benda