Analysis of multi-player online game traffic based on self-similarity

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cevizci, Ibrahim ^a   Erol, Melike ^a   Oktug, Sema F ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hurst parameter; Multi player first person shooter games; Self similarity; Traffic analysis

Indexed keywords

BURSTY TRAFFIC; FIRST PERSON SHOOTER GAMES; HIGH BANDWIDTH; HURST PARAMETER; INTER-ARRIVAL TIME; INTERNET TRAFFIC; LONG RANGE DEPENDENT; LOW DELAY; MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; NETWORK RESOURCE; NONSTATIONARY; PACKET SIZE; SELF-SIMILARITIES; STATIONARITY; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS;

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953114693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1230040.1230093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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