Does reducing packet transmission rates help to improve consistency within distributed interactive applications?

Proceedings of CGAMES 2006 - 9th International Conference on Computer Games: Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 88-92

  Marshall, Damien ^a   McLoone, Séamus ^a   Ward, Tomás ^a   Delaney, Declan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Consistency; Dead Reckoning; Distributed Interactive Applications; Entity Update Mechanisms; Networked Games

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; INTERNET; NETWORK SECURITY; PACKET NETWORKS;

CONSISTENCY; DEAD RECKONING; DISTRIBUTED INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; NETWORKED GAMES; UPDATE MECHANISMS;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 51349159050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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