Improving application layer latency for reliable thin-stream game traffic

Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NetGames'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 91-96

  Petlund, Andreas ^a,b   Evensen, Kristian ^a   Halvorsen, Pål ^a,b   Griwodz, Carsten ^a,b  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION LAYERS; GAME EXPERIENCE; LARGE DELAYS; LATENCY REDUCTION; LINUX KERNEL; NETWORKED GAMES; RETRANSMISSION SCHEME; THIN STREAMS; TIME-DEPENDENT;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 69949127140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1517494.1517513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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