Limitations of using real-world, public servers to estimate jitter tolerance of first person shooter games

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 74, Issue , 2004, Pages 257-262

  Armitage, Grenville ^a   Stewart, Lawrence ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

First person shooter; Internet service provider; Jitter; Network games; Quake III Arena

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; JITTER; WEB SERVICES;

FIRST PERSON SHOOTER; FIRST PERSON SHOOTER GAMES; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; INTERACTIVE GAMES; MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; NETWORK GAME; PLAYER SATISFACTIONS; QUAKE III ARENA;

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS;

EID: 77953785056     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1067343.1067377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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