On designing an event delivery service for multiplayer networked games: An approach based on obsolescence

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2003, Pages 109-114

  Ferretti, Stefano ^a   Roccetti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Event Delivery Service; Interactivity; Multiplayer Games

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

EVENT DELIVERY SERVICE; INTERACTIVITY; MULTIPLAYER GAMES;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 1542537946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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