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NETGAMES
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Post-game estimation of game client RTT and hop count distributions
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...
HPDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Scaling multiplayer online games using proxy-server replication: a case study of Quake 2
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are an increasingly popular class of real-time interactive distributed applications that require scalable architectures and parallelizat...
Jens Müller 0004, Sergei Gorlatch, Tobias Sch...
ACMACE
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Achieving fairness in multiplayer network games through automated latency balancing
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...
ICECCS
2007
IEEE
95views Hardware» more  ICECCS 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
A Novel Approach to the Detection of Cheating in Multiplayer Online Games
— 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...
CCR
2007
168views more  CCR 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Challenges in peer-to-peer gaming
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...