A communication architecture for massive multiplayer games

NetGames 2002 - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Network and System Support for Games

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 14-22

  Fiedler, Stefan ^a   Wallner, Michael ^a   Weber, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Massive multiplayer games; Publisher subscriber model; Scalability

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; SCALABILITY;

COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURES; COMMUNICATION LAYERS; HIGH LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER GAMES; MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; NETWORK PROGRAMMING; PUBLISHER/SUBSCRIBER; UNDERLYING NETWORKS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84941157827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/566500.566503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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