Empirical evaluation of the efficiency of spatial subdivision schemes and load balancing strategies for networked games

Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Quax, Peter ^a   Cleuren, Jimmy ^a   Vanmontfort, Wouter ^a   Lamotte, Wim ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; LOAD BALANCING STRATEGY; LOAD-BALANCING SCHEMES; NETWORKED GAMES; NETWORKED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; OFFLINE; OFFLINE SYSTEMS; ONLINE VERSIONS; SPATIAL SUBDIVISION; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; EFFICIENCY; INTERNET; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES;

EID: 80052993224     PISSN: 10952055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN.2011.6006024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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