A peer auditing scheme for cheat elimination in MMOGs

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 9-14

  Goodman, Josh ^a   Verbrugge, Clark ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cheating; Computer games; Network Model; Peer auditing; Peer to peer; Trust model

Indexed keywords

CHEATING; COMPUTER GAMES; NETWORK MODEL; PEER AUDITING; PEER TO PEER; TRUST MODEL;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; GAME THEORY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SCALABILITY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 70349138314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1517494.1517496     Document Type: Conference Paper

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