Integrating peer-to-peer and cloud computing for massively multiuser online games

Kavalionak, Hanna; Carlini, Emanuele; Ricci, Laura; Montresor, Alberto; Coppola, Massimo

doi:10.1007/s12083-013-0232-4

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“…These assumptions are quite simplistic, but in line with related work on P2P/Cloud systems [29,32]. A real cloud is a complex system, provided with modules for dispatching requests, monitoring physical resources, processing requests, store data items, etc.…”

Section: Simulation Resultsmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…On the other hand, a P2P system can be augmented with cloud angels, i.e., elastic computing nodes with the specific task of satisfying requirements beyond the reach of a P2P network [41]. Recently, several architectures which combine the two approaches have been proposed, with reference to three main scenarios: distributed storage [28], massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) [14,29,46] and real-time streaming [15,16,30,37].…”

Section: P2p and Cloudmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An autonomic approach for P2P/cloud collaborative environments

Amoretti

Grazioli

Zanichelli

2015

Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl.

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The rise of Cloud Computing has progressively dimmed the interest in volunteer and peer-to-peer computing, in general. However, efficient and cost-effective large scale distributed collaborative environments cannot be achieved leveraging upon the Cloud alone. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid P2P/cloud approach where components and protocols are autonomically configured according to specific target goals, such as cost-effectiveness, reliability and availability. The proposed approach is based on the Networked Autonomic Machine (NAM) framework, which allows distributed system designers to include different kinds of cost and performance constraints. As an example, we show how the NAM-based approach can be used to design collaborative storage systems, enabling the definition of an autonomic policy to decide, according to cost minimization and data availability goals, how to part data chunks among peer nodes and Cloud, based on the local perception of the P2P network.

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Section: Simulation Resultsmentioning

confidence: 90%

Section: P2p and Cloudmentioning

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An autonomic approach for P2P/cloud collaborative environments

Amoretti

Grazioli

Zanichelli

2015

Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl.

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“…Players can play against each other or play in teams to complete some missions, which provides more entertainment than single-player games and attracts many people of different age, gender, and background to join [3]. Currently the prevalent game architecture are client-server architectures, in which main functionalities of the virtual environment such as user identification and state management are achieved on the server [4]. However, this architecture has the two limitations: low scalability and high costs of bandwidth and computation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A more efficient secure event signature protocol for massively multiplayer online games based on P2P

Li¹,

Liang²,

Chu³

2017

Proceedings of the 2016 International Forum on Mechanical, Control and Automation (IFMCA 2016)

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Abstract. In recent years, Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have been increasingly popular. Considering the limits of the traditional architectures, MMOGs based on the peer-to-peer networks have many advantages: scalability, computation cost, reliability and concurrency. Researchers have made improvements on this protocol to enhance its security since Chan et al.proposed an efficient and secure event signature (EASES) protocol, however, no one has solved this problem in essence. In 2013, Yuan et al. presented a higher secure scheme, unfortunately, its efficiency is lower than others due to bilinear pairing. In this paper, we propose a more efficient and secure protocol, the security of which is just guaranteed by the Diffie-Hellman problem. Meanwhile, it is concluded that the efficiency of ours also behaves better after the comparison with other existing protocols.

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“…Opportunities for volunteer cloud computing. The benefits of combining the cloud and volunteer paradigms are the reduction of economic costs and consumed power at data centers . The reduction of economic costs comes from better exploitation of available and unused computational resources, for the use of those made available free of charge from the volunteer community.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Instead, service-oriented applications (such as multi-tier Web applications) are not suitable for being executed in a volunteer cloud environment, because of the volatile presence of the nodes participating in the network.Opportunities for volunteer cloud computing. The benefits of combining the cloud and volunteer paradigms are the reduction of economic costs and consumed power at data centers [3][4][5][6]. The reduction of economic costs comes from better exploitation of available and unused computational resources, for the use of those made available free of charge from the volunteer community.…”

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AVOCLOUDY: a simulator of volunteer clouds

2015

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Summary The increasing demand of computational and storage resources is shifting users toward the adoption of cloud technologies. Cloud computing is based on the vision of computing as utility, where users no more need to buy machines but simply access remote resources made available on‐demand by cloud providers. The relationship between users and providers is defined by a service‐level agreement, where the non‐fulfillment of its terms is regulated by the associated penalty fees. Therefore, it is important that the providers adopt proper monitoring and managing strategies. Despite their reduced application, intelligent agents constitute a feasible technology to add autonomic features to cloud operations. Furthermore, the volunteer computing paradigm—one of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) trends of the last decade—can be pulled alongside traditional cloud approaches, with the purpose to ‘green’ them. Indeed, the combination of data center and volunteer resources, managed by agents, allows one to obtain a more robust and scalable cloud computing platform. The increased challenges in designing such a complex system can benefit from a simulation‐based approach, to test autonomic management solutions before their deployment in the production environment. However, currently available simulators of cloud platforms are not suitable to model and analyze such heterogeneous, large‐scale, and highly dynamic systems. We propose the AVOCLOUDY simulator to fill this gap. This paper presents the internal architecture of the simulator, provides implementation details, summarizes several notable applications, and provides experimental results that measure the simulator performance and its accuracy. The latter experiments are based on real‐world worldwide distributed computations on top of the PlanetLab platform. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Integrating peer-to-peer and cloud computing for massively multiuser online games

Cited by 35 publications

References 42 publications

An autonomic approach for P2P/cloud collaborative environments

An autonomic approach for P2P/cloud collaborative environments

A more efficient secure event signature protocol for massively multiplayer online games based on P2P

AVOCLOUDY: a simulator of volunteer clouds

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