A hybrid architecture for massively multiplayer online games

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 60-65

  Jardine, Jared ^a   Zappala, Daniel ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; CENTRALIZED CONTROL; CLIENT SERVER; CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURES; CRITICAL EVENTS; GAME ARCHITECTURE; GAME EXPERIENCE; HYBRID ARCHITECTURES; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MEASUREMENT STUDY; MEASUREMENTS AND MONITORING; PEER TO PEER; PEER-TO-PEER GAMES; PLANETLAB; STORING STATE;

BANDWIDTH; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70349147730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1517494.1517507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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