Hydra: A massively-multiplayer peer-to-peer architecture for the game developer

Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NetGames '07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 37-42

  Chan, Luther ^a   Yong, James ^a   Bai, Jiaqiang ^a   Leong, Ben ^a   Tan, Raymond ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE THE FLAG; GAME DEVELOPMENT; MESSAGE OVERHEAD; MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MULTIPLAYERS; PEER-TO-PEER ARCHITECTURES; PROGRAMMING INTERFACE; PROGRAMMING MODELS; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; REAL-TIME STRATEGY GAMES;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MICROCOMPUTERS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK LAYERS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 70349103015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1326257.1326264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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