Beyond the LAN: Techniques from network games for improving groupware performance

GROUP'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 291-300

  Dyck, Jeff ^a   Gutwin, Carl ^a   Graham, T C Nicholas ^b   Pinelle, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c University of Nevada Las Vegas   (United States)

Author keywords

Groupware Performance; Network Games; Networking; QoS

Indexed keywords

LIMITED BANDWIDTH; NETWORK GAME; NETWORK GAMES; NETWORKED GAMES; OPEN SOURCES; QUALITY REQUIREMENTS; REAL TIME INTERACTIONS; REAL-WORLD; TECHNIQUES USED;

LIBRARIES; NETWORK PERFORMANCE;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 77950472608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1316624.1316669     Document Type: Conference Paper

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