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 …

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 …

Networked multiplayer games are a multibillion dollar business: some games now attract
tens of millions of players. In this practical, code-rich guide, Joshua Glazer and Sanjay …

Online games are a rapidly growing Internet application. In order to run a successful online
game, game companies and game infrastructure providers must properly manage game …

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 …

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 …

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 …

2. Description of the Related Art Since their inception computer games have experienced
enormous growth in popularity and Sophistication. From the very first Video games to those …

The Internet has provided a network infrastructure with global connectivity for the games
industry to develop and deploy online games. However, unlike the document interface …

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 …