The impact of virtualization on the performance of massively multiplayer online games

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Nae, Vlad ^a   Prodan, Radu ^a   Fahringer, Thomas ^a   Iosup, Alexandru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTE RESOURCES; COMPUTING PLATFORM; DATA CENTERS; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; ON-DEMAND; REAL TRACE; RESOURCE PROVISIONING; SOFTWARE SERVICES; USAGE PATTERNS; VIRTUALIZATIONS; VIRTUALIZED RESOURCES;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 77952601855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NETGAMES.2009.5446227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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