GSM: A Game Scalability Model for multiplayer real-time games

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 2044-2055

  Müller, Jens ^a   Gorlatch, Sergei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAME DESIGNS; GAME SERVICE; MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER GAMES (MMG); REAL-TIME STRATEGY (RTS);

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SERVERS; TOPOLOGY;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 25844468333     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2005.1498481     Document Type: Conference Paper

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