Scaling multiplayer online games using proxy-server replication: A case study of Quake 2

Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing 2007, HPDC'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 219-220

  Müller, Jens ^a   Gorlatch, Sergei ^a   Schröter, Tobias ^b   Fischer, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b University of Brunswick   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer games; Proxy server; Replication; Scalability

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SCALABILITY; SERVERS;

COMPUTER GAMES; PROXY-SERVER; SINGLE-SERVER VERSION;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 34548100499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1272366.1272399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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