Online gaming is one of the most profitable businesses over the Internet. Among all genres
of the online games, the popularity of the MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role …

This paper presents traffic measurement of a Massively Multiplayer On-line Role Playing
Game (MMORPG). This analysis characterizes the MMORPG traffic and shows its …

The popularity of MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games) has grown fast. This new
type of online games uses a different type of protocol and has other limitations to delay and …

MMORPGs have become extremely popular among network gamers. Despite their success,
one of MMORPG's greatest challenges is the increasing use of game bots, ie, auto-playing …

While psychologists analyze network game-playing behavior in terms of players' social
interaction and experience, understanding user behavior is equally important to network …

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 …

On-line games are a rapidly growing Internet application. Because of the cost in supporting
on-line games and the unpredictable load on servers, companies are moving toward …

Abstract Providing Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) is a big
challenge for future mobile, IP-based networks. Understanding how the players' actions …

This paper describes the results of a 500 million packet trace of a popular on-line, multi-
player, game server. The results show that the traffic behavior of this heavily loaded game …

Networked games are becoming more and more important in the last years. One of the
current game evolutions is creating massive virtual environments, so called MMORPGs …