A traffic characterization of popular on-line games

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 488-500

  Feng, Wu Chang ^a   Chang, Francis ^a   Feng, Wu Chi ^a   Walpole, Jonathan ^a  

^a Portland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication system traffic; Games; Measurement; Network servers; Networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROUTERS; SERVERS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEM TRAFFIC; NETWORK SERVERS; ON LINE GAMES;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 23344442945     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2005.850221     Document Type: Article

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