A distributed architecture for MMORPG

Proceedings of 5th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NetGames '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Assiotis, Marios ^a   Tzanov, Velin ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed architecture; MMORPG; Multiplayer game

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; FAILURE PROBLEMS; GAME SERVERS; HOT SPOT; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; ROLE-PLAYING GAME; SIMPLE GAMES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SERVERS;

EID: 77953088889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1230040.1230067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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