Game traffic analysis: An MMORPG perspective

Computer Networks

Volumn 50, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 3002-3023

  Chen, Kuan Ta ^a,b   Huang, Polly ^a   Lei, Chin Laung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Internet measurement; MMORPG; Network games; Traffic analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; BANDWIDTH; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERNET MEASUREMENT; MMORPG; NETWORK GAMES; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 33747873700     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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