Interactivity-loss avoidance in event delivery synchronization for mirrored game architectures

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 874-879

  Palazzi, Claudio E ^a,b   Ferretti, Stefano ^a   Cacciaguerra, Stefano ^a   Roccetti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Event delivery service; Interactivity; Massively multiplayer online game; Online entertainment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; QUEUEING THEORY; SERVERS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CONSISTENCY; EVENT DELIVERY SERVICE; INTERACTIVITY; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAME; ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746622568     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2006.876229     Document Type: Article

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