In first person shooter (FPS) games the round trip time (RTT) (delay, or ‘lag’) between a client and server is an important criterion for players when deciding which server to ...
Grenville J. Armitage, Carl Javier, Sebastian Zand...
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are an increasingly popular class of real-time interactive distributed applications that require scalable architectures and parallelizat...
Over the past few years, the prominence of multiplayer network gaming has increased dramatically in the Internet. The effect of network delay (lag) on multiplayer network gaming h...
Sebastian Zander, Ian Leeder, Grenville J. Armitag...
— Modern online multiplayer games are complex heterogeneous distributed systems comprised of servers and untrusted clients, which are often engineered under considerable commerci...
Peter Laurens, Richard F. Paige, Phillip J. Brooke...
While multi-player online games are very successful, their fast deployment suffers from their server-based architecture. Indeed, servers both limit the scalability of the games a...
Christoph Neumann, Nicolas Prigent, Matteo Varvell...