How sensitive are online gamers to network quality?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 34-38

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

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b Department ot Electrical Engineering ^*  (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMERS NETWORKS; NETWORK QUALITY; ONLINE GAME SERVICES; REAL TIME PROBLEMS;

ANIMATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SERVERS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750698272     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 00010782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1167838.1167859     Document Type: Review

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