On the sensitivity of online game playing time to network QoS

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chen, Kuan Ta ^a,b   Huang, Polly ^a   Wang, Guo Shiuan ^b   Huango, Chun Ying ^a   Lei, Chin Laung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Human factors; Internet measurement; Network games; Quality of service; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

NETWORK GAMES; ONLINE GAMING; PACKET DELAYS; SHENZHOU ONLINE;

DATA TRANSFER; DECISION MAKING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 39049151374     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2006.286     Document Type: Conference Paper

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