Publish/subscribe network designs for multiplayer games

Proceedings of the 15th International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 241-252

  Cañas, César ^a   Zhang, Kaiwen ^b   Kemme, Bettina ^a   Kienzle, Jörg ^a   Jacobsen, Hans Arno ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interest management; Multiplayer games; Publish subscribe

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENGINES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; INTEREST MANAGEMENTS; LOOSELY COUPLED; MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAME (MMOGS); MULTIPLAYER GAMES; NETWORK ENGINES; PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE; PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE NETWORKS;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 84920435571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2663165.2663337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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