Distributing network game servers for improved geographical scalability

Telecommunications Journal of Australia

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Brun, Jeremy ^a   Safaei, Farzad ^a   Boustead, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAME SERVER DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL SCALABILITY; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; PROPAGATION DELAYS;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SERVERS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 18944401884     PISSN: 00402486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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