Bandwidth requirement and state consistency in three multiplayer game architectures

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NetGames 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 52-59

  Pellegrino, Joseph D ^a   Dovrolis, Constantinos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; CENTRAL SERVERS; CLIENT SERVER; CONSISTENCY CHECKS; DISTRIBUTED AGREEMENT; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; OPEN SOURCES; PEER TO PEER;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 77954447510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/963900.963905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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