Modeling system performance in MMORPG

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 512-518

  Huang, Gao ^a   Ye, Meng ^a   Cheng, Long ^a  

^a IBM CHINA RESEARCH LAB   (China)

Author keywords

Concurrent Player Number; Online Game, MMORPG; System Performance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CONCURRENT PLAYER NUMBER; MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER ONLINE ROLE PLAYING GAME (MMORPG); ONLINE GAME; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 20344386014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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