Avatar movement in world of warcraft battlegrounds

2009 8th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games, NetGames 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Miller, John L ^a,b   Crowcroft, Jon ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avatar measurement; World of warcraft

Indexed keywords

AVATAR MEASUREMENT; HOT SPOT; MEASURED DATA; MESSAGE PROPAGATION; MOVEMENT MODEL; TOPOLOGY MANAGEMENT; WAYPOINTS;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952586489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NETGAMES.2009.5446226     Document Type: Conference Paper

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