FILA in gameland, a holistic approach to a problem of many dimensions

Computers in Entertainment

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Ferretti, Stefano ^a   Palazzi, Claudio E ^a,b,c   Roccetti, Marco ^a   Pau, Giovanni ^b,c   Gerla, Mario ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Fairness; Interactivity; Multiplayer online games; Scalability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DESIGN; SEMANTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

FAIRNESS; INTERACTIVITY; MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; SCALABILITY;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 33751025673     PISSN: 15443574     EISSN: 15443574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1178418.1178430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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