Cheating detection through game time modeling: A better way to avoid time cheats in P2P MOGs?

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 339-363

  Ferretti, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cheating detection; Multiplayer online games; Peer to peer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

CHEATING DETECTION; MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; ONLINE GAMES;

INTRUSION DETECTION;

EID: 40749152349     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: 15737721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-007-0163-2     Document Type: Article

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