When provisioning network resources, ISPs have to tackle with the difficulties imposed by
the traffic characteristics and demands of the users. Multi-player online games (MPOG) are …

Even if Internet traffic analysis and characterization is a fertile research area, a lot of work
still must be done to study and understand the traffic characteristics of new emerging …

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 …

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 …

One of the most important aspects in determining the global traffic characteristics of on-line
games is to model the traffic behavior of the client. While modeling the client ON-OFF times …

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 …

In this paper, we propose a transformation scheme used to analyze online gaming traffic
properties and develop a traffic model. We analyze the packet size and the inter departure …

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 …

As the amount of traffic generated by online games is increasing, models used to simulate
network traffic and design or optimize network hardware and protocols as well as …

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 …