A distributed server architecture for providing immersive audio communication to massively multi-player online games

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Networks, ICON

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 170-176

  Nguyen, Cong Due ^a   Safaei, Farzad ^a   Boustead, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES (MMOG); MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; TEXT MESSAGES;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; GAME THEORY; SERVERS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 21644446059     PISSN: 15312216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICON.2004.1409117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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