Scalable user content distribution for massively multiplayer online worlds

Computer

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 38-44

  Symborski, Carl ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avatars; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Content delivery networks; Data distribution architecture; Games; Massively multiplayer online games; MMOWs; Object recognition; Servers; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

EID: 52449132338     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2008.397     Document Type: Article

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