The effects of loss and latency on user performance in unreal tournament 2003

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2004 Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 144-151

  Beigbeder, Tom ^a   Coughlan, Rory ^a   Lusher, Corey ^a   Plunkett, John ^a   Agu, Emmanuel ^a   Claypool, Mark ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Latency; Loss; Network Games

Indexed keywords

GAME SERVERS; LATENCY; LOSS; NETWORK GAMES;

BANDWIDTH; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SERVERS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 11244262523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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