Game-on-demand: An online game engine based on geometry streaming

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Li, Frederick W B ^a   Lau, Rynson W H ^b   Kilis, Danny ^c   Li, Lewis W F ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c Morgan Stanley Information Technology (Shanghai) Limited   (China)

Author keywords

Design; Performance

Indexed keywords

CONTENT DELIVERY; CONTENT MANAGEMENT; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC GEOMETRY; GAME PLAYERS; HAND HELD DEVICE; NETWORK LATENCIES; ON-LINE GAMES; ON-LINE GAMING; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ISSUES; RESEARCH AREAS; SUPPORT INTERACTION; SYNCHRONIZATION SCHEME; TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORTS; VISUAL QUALITIES;

DESIGN; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

INTERNET;

EID: 80053001356     PISSN: 15516857     EISSN: 15516865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2000486.2000493     Document Type: Article

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