Peer-to-peer architectures for massively multiplayer online games: A survey

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Yahyavi, Amir ^a   Kemme, Bettina ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cheating; Commercial applications; Consistency control; Fault tolerance; Incentives; Interest management; Massively multiplayer online games; Multicasting; Network overlays; Peer to peer networking; Replication

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTICASTING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS; SCALABILITY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CHEATING; COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; CONSISTENCY CONTROL; INCENTIVE; INTEREST MANAGEMENTS; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; NETWORK OVERLAY; PEER-TO-PEER ARCHITECTURES; PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING; REPLICATION;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 84887470317     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2522968.2522977     Document Type: Review

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