Latency and user behaviour on a multiplayer game server

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2233 LNCS, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-13

  Henderson, Tristan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION LEVEL; DELAY CHARACTERISTICS; FIRST PERSON SHOOTER GAMES; GROUP COMMUNICATIONS; MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MULTIPLAYER GAME SERVERS; NETWORK CONDITION; USER BEHAVIOUR;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET;

EID: 84867443084     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45546-9_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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