Effect of network quality on player departure behavior in online games

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 593-606

  Chen, Kuan Ta ^a   Huang, Polly ^b   Lei, Chin Laung ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Departure analysis; Internet measurement; Logistic regression; MMOG; MMORPG; Quality of service; User behavior

Indexed keywords

DEPARTURE ANALYSIS; INTERNET MEASUREMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MMOG; MMORPG; USER BEHAVIOR;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INTERNET; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; JITTER; PACKET LOSS; QUALITY CONTROL; TRACE ANALYSIS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 67349274942     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2008.148     Document Type: Article

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