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 …

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 …

The computer game industry is clearly growing in the direction of multiplayer, online games.
Understanding the demands of games on IP (Internet Protocol) networks is essential for ISP …

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 …

Computer games stand to benefit from “cloud” technology by doing heavy-weight, graphics-
intensive computations at the server, sending only the visual game frames down to a thin …

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 …

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 …

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

Network games are becoming increasingly popular, but their traffic patterns have received
little attention from the academic research community. A better understanding of network …

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 …