Towards the scalability of real-time online interactive applications on multiple servers and clouds

Advances in Parallel Computing

Volumn 20, Issue , 2011, Pages 267-287

  Ploss, A ^a   Meilander D ^a   Glinka, F ^a   Gorlatch, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clouds; Massively Multi Player Online Games; Performance; Real Time Framework (RTF); Real Time Online Interactive Applications; Scalability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882686132     PISSN: 09275452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-803-8-267     Document Type: Article

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