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

Massive multiplayer online games are becoming popular and prosperous rapidly. Although
many papers have been published on system performance for online games in recent years …

In Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) players can perform
various actions in the virtual world. We try to answer the question how is generated network …

Investigation of the multiplayer on-line game traffic is not only interesting but also important.
From network point of view, accurate traffic models are highly required to generate a …

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 …

A fundamental design question to ask in the development of a network game is---Which
transport protocol should be used---TCP, UDP, or some other protocols? Seeking an …

We present an approach to support Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. Our
proposed solution begins by splitting the large virtual world into smaller regions, each region …

Massive multi-player online games have become a popular, fast growing, multi-million
industry with a very high user mass supporting hundreds or thousands of concurrent players …

Over the last decade, Massively Multi-player On-line Role Playing Games (MMORPGs),
have become big business. In typical MMORPGs, players pay a monthly subscription to the …

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 …