An unobtrusive method for tracking network latency in online games

IET Conference Publications

Volumn , Issue 529 CP, 2007, Pages 54-61

  Marshall, Damien ^a   Mooney, Brian ^a   McLoone, Séamus ^a   Ward, Tomás ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Network latency trends; Online games; Unobtrusive bandwidth estimation

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH; DATA REQUIREMENTS; DISTRIBUTED INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; EXISTING METHOD; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; LATENCY REDUCTION; LIMITED BANDWIDTH; NETWORK CONDITION; NETWORK LATENCIES; NETWORK LATENCY TRENDS; NETWORK TRAFFIC; NS-2 SIMULATIONS; ONLINE GAMES; TIMESTAMPING; TRACKING NETWORKS; UNDERLYING NETWORKS; UNOBTRUSIVE BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION; VIRTUAL WORLDS; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

ESTIMATION; GAME THEORY; INTERNET; PACKET NETWORKS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 67650133009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/cp:20070682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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