Peer-to-peer live video streaming with rateless codes for massively multiplayer online games

Ahmad, Shakeel; Bouras, Christos; Buyukkaya, Eliya; Dawood, Muneeb; Hamzaoui, Raouf; Kapoulas, Vaggelis; Papazois, Andreas; Simon, Gwendal

doi:10.1007/s12083-016-0495-7

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“…Moreover, the sample of publications was composed of a large number of proceedings papers, a clear indication of its relative recency. We should expect to see a significant proportion of these preliminary articles evolving and being refined [ 20 , 130 , 139 , 140 ]. Table 4 presents a summary of the most relevant information about the general profile of the domain.…”

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Exploring the Emerging Domain of Research on Video Game Live Streaming in Web of Science: State of the Art, Changes and Trends

Cabeza-Ramírez

García

Fernández

2021

IJERPH

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In recent years, interest in video game live streaming services has increased as a new communication instrument, social network, source of leisure, and entertainment platform for millions of users. The rise in this type of service has been accompanied by an increase in research on these platforms. As an emerging domain of research focused on this novel phenomenon takes shape, it is necessary to delve into its nature and antecedents. The main objective of this research is to provide a comprehensive reference that allows future analyses to be addressed with greater rigor and theoretical depth. In this work, we developed a meta-review of the literature supported by a bibliometric performance and network analysis (BPNA). We used the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis) protocol to obtain a representative sample of 111 published documents since 2012 and indexed in the Web of Science. Additionally, we exposed the main research topics developed to date, which allowed us to detect future research challenges and trends. The findings revealed four specializations or subdomains: studies focused on the transmitter or streamer; the receiver or the audience; the channel or platform; and the transmission process. These four specializations add to the accumulated knowledge through the development of six core themes that emerge: motivations, behaviors, monetization of activities, quality of experience, use of social networks and media, and gender issues.

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the Emerging Domain of Research on Video Game Live Streaming in Web of Science: State of the Art, Changes and Trends

Cabeza-Ramírez

García

Fernández

2021

IJERPH

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“…This study is concerned primarily with the habits and practices of GVI. Our work is informed by literature that considers broader issues of VI as well as by our understanding of games and more specifically, of audiogames and of other assistive technologies that have been deployed for PVI 1 both within and outside game settings. It reflects our belief that research into VI should focus not only on the instrumental supports and aids that PVI require but also on the "beauty" and the "wonder" of play purely for play's sake [122].…”

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“…With one of our participants defining the community of GVI as "close-knit", future research could explore in more detail the types of social interactions that are targeted to GVI. For example, research on streaming play typically focuses on the technology [1,116], the selection of games [34], the visual spectacle [102], and on chat interactions [99]. In our interviews, however, Jose described listening to other players playing Mortal Kombat, observing that sound cues may help provide an even ground for players with different physical abilities.…”

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Playing Blind

Andrade

Rogerson

Waycott

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Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Previous research on games for people with visual impairment (PVI) has focused on co-designing or evaluating specific games-mostly under controlled conditions. In this research, we follow a game-agnostic, "in-the-wild" approach, investigating the habits, opinions and concerns of PVI regarding digital games. To explore these issues, we conducted an online survey and follow-up interviews with gamers with VI (GVI). Dominant themes from our analysis include the particular appeal of digital games to GVI, the importance of social trajectories and histories of gameplay, the need to balance complexity and accessibility in both games targeted to PVI and mainstream games, opinions about the state of the gaming industry, and accessibility concerns around new and emerging technologies such as VR and AR. Our study gives voice to an underrepresented group in the gaming community. Understanding the practices, experiences and motivations of GVI provides a valuable foundation for informing development of more inclusive games. CCS CONCEPTS • Social and professional topics → People with disabilities; • Applied computing → Computer games;

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“…Thanks to their flexibility and simplicity rateless codes have found their way in numerous fields such as distributed storage [2,31], Wireless Ad Hoc Networks [16], peer-topeer based applications [43], communications in 5G [37], vehicular networks and Internet of Things applications [13,34]. In the broad area of peer-to-peer rateless codes have been exploited in application ranging from multimedia delivery to distributed storage systems [1,5,35,42,46,47]. Some of these papers also dealt with security issues.…”

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On the robustness of three classes of rateless codes against pollution attacks in P2P networks

Gaeta

Grangetto

2021

Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl.

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Rateless codes (a.k.a. fountain codes, digital fountain) have found their way in numerous peer-to-peer based applications although their robustness to the so called pollution attack has not been deeply investigated because they have been originally devised as a solution for dealing with block erasures and not for block modification. In this paper we provide an analysis of the intrinsic robustness of three rateless codes algorithms, i.e., random linear network codes (RLNC), Luby transform (LT), and band codes (BC) against intentional data modification. By intrinsic robustness we mean the ability of detecting as soon as possible that modification of at least one equation has occurred as well as the possibility a receiver can decode from the set of equations with and without the modified ones. We focus on bare rateless codes where no additional information is added to equations (e.g., tags) or higher level protocol are used (e.g., verification keys to pre-distribute to receivers) to detect and recover from data modification. We consider several scenarios that combine both random and targeted selection of equations to alter and modification of an equation that can either change the rank of the coding matrix or not. Our analysis reveals that a high percentage of attacks goes undetected unless a minimum code redundancy is achieved, LT codes are the most fragile in virtually all scenarios, RLNC and BC are quite insensitive to the victim selection and type of alteration of chosen equations and exhibit virtually identical robustness although BC offer a low complexity of the decoding algorithm.

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Peer-to-peer live video streaming with rateless codes for massively multiplayer online games

Cited by 13 publications

References 29 publications

Exploring the Emerging Domain of Research on Video Game Live Streaming in Web of Science: State of the Art, Changes and Trends

Exploring the Emerging Domain of Research on Video Game Live Streaming in Web of Science: State of the Art, Changes and Trends

Playing Blind

On the robustness of three classes of rateless codes against pollution attacks in P2P networks

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