Implementation of a service platform for online games

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NetGames'04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 106-110

  Shaikh, Anees ^a   Sahu, Sambit ^a   Rosu, Marcel ^a   Shea, Michael ^a   Saha, Debanjan ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

game hosting; on demand computing; online games

Indexed keywords

CORE COMPETENCIES; DEDICATED SERVERS; GAME HOSTING; GAME SERVERS; MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; NETWORK RESOURCE; ON-DEMAND COMPUTING; ON-DEMAND SERVICES; ON-LINE GAMES; OPEN STANDARDS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SERVICE PLATFORMS; SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE; SUPPORT UTILITY; UTILITY COMPUTING; WEB-BASED BUSINESS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; SERVERS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954441195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1016540.1016547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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