On correctness of scalable multi-server state replication in online games

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Müller, Jens ^a   Gössling, Andreas ^a   Gorlatch, Sergei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER; MULTI-SERVER; ON-LINE GAMES; PARALLELIZATIONS; SCALABLE NETWORKS; USER INPUT;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 77953118978     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1230040.1230088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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