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

Lü, Fan; Trinder, Phil; Taylor, Hamish

doi:10.1504/ijamc.2010.032138

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“…The primary requirement for MMOGs based on Peer-toPeer architecture is to maintain state consistency, and a shared sense of virtual space among great numbers of players without the need for support by the server [9]. The development of a peer to peer architecture for a MMOG is a significant research topic.…”

Section: Mmogs Communication In Peer To Peer Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Peer-to-peer architectures do not have central server and therefore it becomes most difficult to present single consistent virtual world to all users. In Peer-to-Peer system, distributing the game state over all the peers in the game world, so there will have to be an effective way to set different elements of the game world to different peers [9].…”

Section: Mmogs Communication In Peer To Peer Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Simulation of Massively Multiplayer Online Games communication using OPNET custom application

Abdulazeez

Rhalibi

Al‐Jumeily

2016

2016 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC)

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Abstract-In recent years, there has been an important growth in online gaming. Nowadays, Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) may involve millions of synchronous players scattered around the world and engaging with each other within a single shared game. In this paper, we propose a new technique to communicate between players and game server, and between them based on hybrid Peer-to-Peer architecture. We propose to use OPNET Modeler 18.0, and in particular the custom application to simulate the new architecture, which required the implementation of new nodes models and behaviors in the simulator to emulate correctly the new architecture. We use OPNET Modeler 18.0 to simulate the network, applying two transport protocols TCP and UDP, and with different scenarios. The scenarios include both clientserver and hybrid P2P system to evaluate the communication of games with (125, 500, and 1000) peers.

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Section: Mmogs Communication In Peer To Peer Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mmogs Communication In Peer To Peer Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Simulation of Massively Multiplayer Online Games communication using OPNET custom application

Abdulazeez

Rhalibi

Al‐Jumeily

2016

2016 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC)

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“…With the goal of providing an unlimited scalability that is able to manage peak load situations dynamically, some authors propose the use of completely decentralized systems, such as Peer-toPeer networks. In this kind of system, apart from the load distribution techniques, there are additional aspects to be faced [15] that have been studied by several authors: (a) Establishing an effective mechanism for propagating events in a high latency network. Different alternatives have been presented that are applied in the network layer [5,8] or the application layer [9].…”

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Distributing game instances in a hybrid client-server/P2P system to support MMORPG playability

Barri

Roig

Giné

2014

Multimed Tools Appl

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MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) is the most popular genre among network gamers, and now attract millions of users, who play simultaneously in an evolving virtual world. This huge number of concurrent players requires the availability of high performance computation servers. Additionally, gaming aware distribution mechanisms are needed to distribute game instances among servers to avoid load imbalances that affect performance negatively. In this work, we tackle the problem of game distribution and scalability by means of a hybrid Client-Server/P2P architecture that can scale dynamically according to the demand. To manage peak loads that occur during the game, we distribute game computation across the system according to the behavior of MMORPGs. We distinguish between the computation associated with the Main Game, that affects all players, and the computation of Auxiliary Games that affects only a few players and acts in isolation from the execution of the Main Game. Taking this distinction into account, we propose a mechanism that is focused in the distribution of Auxiliary Games, as an entity, across the pool of servers and peers of the underlying hybrid architecture. We evaluate the performance of the balancing mechanism taking the criteria of latency and reliability into account, and we compare the effectiveness of the mechanism with a classic approach that applies load balancing to individually players in a Client-Server system. We show that the balancing mechanism based on the latency criteria provides lower latency Appl (2016Appl ( ) 75:2005Appl ( -2029 than the classical proposal, while in relation to reliability, we obtain a failure probability of under 0.9 % in the worst case, which is amply compensated by the scalability provided by the use of the P2P area.

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“…With these methods, any number of players can be employed to generate reproducible and scalable workload. First, results have been published in previous work [7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

On synthetic workloads for multiplayer online games: a methodology for generating representative shooter game workloads

et al. 2014

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We present approaches to the generation of synthetic workloads for benchmarking multiplayer online gaming infrastructures. Existing techniques, such as mobility or traffic models, are often either too simple to be representative for this purpose or too specific for a particular network structure. Desirable properties of a workload are reproducibility, representativeness, and scalability to any number of players. We analyze different mobility models and AI-based workload generators. Real gaming sessions with human players using the prototype game Planet PI4 serve as a reference workload. Novel metrics are used to measure the similarity between real and synthetic traces with respect to neighborhood characteristics. We found that, although more complicated to handle, AI players reproduce real workload characteristics more accurately than mobility models.

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

Cited by 44 publications

References 73 publications

Simulation of Massively Multiplayer Online Games communication using OPNET custom application

Simulation of Massively Multiplayer Online Games communication using OPNET custom application

Distributing game instances in a hybrid client-server/P2P system to support MMORPG playability

On synthetic workloads for multiplayer online games: a methodology for generating representative shooter game workloads

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