Managing latency and fairness on networked games

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 46-51

  Brun, Jeremy ^a,b   Safaei, Farzad ^a,c,d   Boustead, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b SV Corporation Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c Department of Telecommunications Engineering ^*  (Australia)

^d Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAME STATE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTANCES; ONLINE GAMES; PLAYABILITY;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ANIMATION;

EID: 33750736329     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 00010782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1167838.1167861     Document Type: Review

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