Latency and player actions in online games

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 40-45

  Claypool, Mark ^a,b   Claypool, Kajal ^c  

^a Department of Computer Science ^*  (United States)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAME LOGICS; NETWORK CONGESTION; ONLINE GAMES; PLAYER ACTIONS;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PACKET SWITCHING; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

ANIMATION;

EID: 33750703981     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 00010782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1167838.1167860     Document Type: Review

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