An efficient gaming user oriented load balancing scheme for MMORPGs

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 289-297

  Kim, Hye Young ^a   Park, Hwa Jin ^b  

^a Hong Ik University   (South Korea)

^b Sookmyung Women's University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gaming user; Load balancing; MMORPGs; Seamless; User oriented

Indexed keywords

RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CLIENT-SERVER MODELS; DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; GAMING USER; LOAD BALANCING ALGORITHMS; LOAD-BALANCING SCHEMES; MMORPGS; SEAMLESS; USER ORIENTED;

SERVERS;

EID: 84886435412     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11277-013-1237-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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