Cost-efficient hosting and load balancing of Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Proceedings - IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 9-16

  Nae, Vlad ^a   Prodan, Radu ^a   Fahringer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Load balancing cost model; MMOG hosting

Indexed keywords

CLIENT NEEDS; CLIENT-SERVER APPLICATIONS; COST-EFFICIENT; GAME SERVERS; LOAD BALANCING ALGORITHMS; LOAD DISTRIBUTIONS; LOAD-BALANCING; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MMOG HOSTING; NEW APPROACHES; QOS REQUIREMENTS; REAL-TIME QUALITY OF SERVICES; SIMULATION RESULT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COSTS; GRID COMPUTING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERNET; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SERVERS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79951645640     PISSN: 15505510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GRID.2010.5697956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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