An efficient synchronization mechanism for mirrored game architectures

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

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 67-73

  Cronin, Eric ^a   Filstrup, Burton ^a   Kurc, Anthony R ^a   Jamin, Sugih ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Game platforms; System architectures

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MICROCOMPUTERS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURES; CONSISTENCY; DISTRIBUTED MULTI-PLAYER GAMES; FIRST PERSON SHOOTER GAMES; GAME PLATFORMS; PEER-TO-PEER ARCHITECTURES; SYNCHRONIZATION MECHANISMS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84993801843     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/566500.566510     Document Type: Conference Paper

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