Network infrastructure for massively distributed games

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

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 36-43

  Bauer, Daniel ^a   Rooney, Sean ^a   Scotton, Paolo ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Massively distributed games; Network infrastructure; Network processors

Indexed keywords

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED GAMES; HYPERTEXT DOCUMENTS; NETWORK AWARENESS; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; NETWORK PROCESSOR; NEW INDUSTRY; SINGLE NETWORKS; WEB SERVER FARMS;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 84993820972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/566500.566506     Document Type: Conference Paper

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