A federated peer-to-peer network game architecture

Rooney, Seán; Bauer, Daniel; Deydier, R.

doi:10.1109/mcom.2004.1299353

Cited by 38 publications

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“…Scalable architectures for MMOGs have been an active area of research over the last several years [5,1,2,10,13,8,7]. These architectures are typically distributed, or peer-to-peer, because the client/server architecture requires a huge investment in resources to scale with the peak demand on a realm.…”

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confidence: 99%

A measurement study of virtual populations in massively multiplayer online games

Pittman

GauthierDickey

2007

Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games

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Understanding the distributions and behaviors of players within Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) is essential for research in scalable architectures for these systems. We provide the first look into this problem through a measurement study on one of the most popular MMOGs, World of Warcraft [15]. Our goal is to answer four fundamental questions: how does the population of the virtual world change over time, how are players distributed in the virtual world, how much churn occurs with players, and how do they move in the virtual world. Through probing-based measurements, our preliminary results show that populations fluctuate according to a prime-time schedule, player distribution and churn appears to occur on a power-law distribution, and players move to only a small number of zones during each playing session. The ultimate goal of our research is to design an accurate player model for MMOGs so that future research can predict and simulate player behavior and population fluctuations over time.

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confidence: 99%

A measurement study of virtual populations in massively multiplayer online games

Pittman

GauthierDickey

2007

Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games

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“…Currently, some related work directly disseminates gaming events with a general-purpose ALM system, e.g., Lu et al (2004), Hampel et al (2006), Dickey et al (2004) and Iimura et al (2004), which use Scribe. However, others like Yamamoto et al (2005), Rooney et al (2005), Chen and Kalogeraki (2005) and Léty et al (2004) have proposed their own group member management and multicast tree construction algorithms, which aim at providing better robustness, scalability and load-balancing capabilities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Design issues for Peer-to-Peer Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Lü

Trinder

Taylor

2010

IJAMC

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Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are increasing in both popularity and scale, and while classical Client/Server (C/S) architectures convey some benefits, they suffer from significant technical and commercial drawbacks. This realisation has sparked intensive research interest in adapting MMOGs to Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architectures. This paper articulates a comprehensive set of six design issues to be addressed by P2P MMOGs, namely Interest Management (IM), game event dissemination, Non-Player Character (NPC) host allocation, game state persistency, cheating mitigation and incentive mechanisms. Design alternatives for each issue are systematically compared, and their interrelationships discussed. We further evaluate how well representative P2P MMOG architectures fulfil the design criteria.

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“…Usually, this can be done by using the cell-structure of the VE and exchanging the entities positions among them [6]- [8]. Thus, we assume this mechanism is given.…”

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“…For the third kind of architectures, federated peer-to-peer architecture is a typical example [6]. This paper deals with the last two kinds of architectures, since the both of them involves in multicast groups in peer-to-peer networks.…”

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confidence: 99%