Latency can kill: Precision and deadline in online games

MMSys'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMM Conference on Multimedia Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 215-222

  Claypool, Mark ^a   Claypool, Kajal ^b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avatar; Deadline; Games; Latency; Perspective; Precision

Indexed keywords

CAMERA VIEW; GAME DESIGNERS; GAME PLAYERS; IN-NETWORK; INTERNET DELAY; NETWORK CONDITION; NETWORK ENGINEERS; ON-LINE GAMES; PLAYER ACTION; PLAYER CONTROL;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 77951261357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1730836.1730863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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