Most of the recent computer game releases support multiplayer options over Internet
connections. The amount of Internet traffic generated by computer games can be expected …

This paper describes the results of the first comprehensive analysis of a range of popular on-
line, multiplayer, game servers. The results show that the traffic behavior of these servers is …

The growth in the popularity of interactive network games has increased the importance of a
better understanding of the effects of packet loss and latency on user performance. While …

A number of papers have been proposed for the purpose of analyzing the traffic data of
network game and providing the models recently. The traffic characteristics of network …

A significant share of today's Internet traffic is generated by network gaming. This kind of
traffic is interesting in regard to it's market potential as well as to it's real time requirements …

Multi-player network games (also known as multi-player online games) are rapidly
becoming a significant contributor to overall Internet traffic. However, the characteristics of …

We study the traffic generated by sessions of a popular multi-player network game. Our
analysis indicates that empirical game traffic can be characterized well by certain analytical …

Recent online games exert increasing impact on network traffic. While considerable
research efforts have been placed on the study of game network traffic, most studies …

Modelling traffic generated by Internet based multiplayer computer games has attracted a
great deal of attention in the past few years. In part this has been driven by a desire to …

As online games become significant contributors to Internet traffic, practitioners must look to
measure and understand game traffic in order to provision for it. Despite gaming's significant …