Using local lag and timewarp to improve performance for real life multi-player online games

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Liang, Dingliang ^a   Boustead, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consistency; Local lag; Networked games; Paradox; Quake 3; Timewarp

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SERVERS; MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; NETWORK LAG; NETWORKED GAMES; RESPONSE TIME;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; EARTHQUAKES; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); TEST FACILITIES;

SERVERS;

EID: 77953104821     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1230040.1230047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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