A fair message exchange framework for distributed multi-player games

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 29-41

  Guo, Katherine ^a   Mukherjee, Sarit ^a   Rangarajan, Sampath ^a   Paul, Sanjoy ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed multi player games; Fairness; Message delivery; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

HUMAN REACTION TIME;

CLIENT-SERVER MODELS; DISTRIBUTED MULTI-PLAYER GAMES; FAIRNESS; INTERACTIVE GAMES; MESSAGE DELIVERY; MESSAGE EXCHANGE; PROXY ARCHITECTURE; SYNCHRONIZED CLOCKS;

NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION;

EID: 80054750655     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/963900.963903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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