Causality and media synchronization control for networked multimedia games: Centralized versus distributed

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NetGames 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 42-51

  Ishibashi, Yutaka ^a   Tasaka, Shuji ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Causality; Experiment; Media synchronization; Networked Games

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; INTEGRATED CONTROL;

CAUSALITY; CENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SCHEMES; MEDIA SYNCHRONIZATION; MULTIPLE CLIENTS; NETWORKED GAMES; NETWORKED MULTIMEDIA; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 15744402680     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/963900.963904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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