Scalability, fast response time, and low cost are of utmost importance in designing a
successful massively multiplayer online game. The underlying architecture plays an …

The edge computing paradigm extends cloud computing with storage and processing
capacity close to the edge of the network, which can be materialized by using many fog …

The success of Web 2.0 communities demonstrates that the users of an information service
are willing to participate in the content creation process on a voluntary basis. In this paper …

Recently, there has been significant research focus on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Massively
Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs). A number of architectures have been presented in the …

Network lag is a fact of life for networked games. Lag can cause game states to diverge at
different nodes in the network, making it difficult to maintain the illusion of a single shared …

The most important asset of a Massively Multiplayer Online Game is its world state, as it
represents the combined efforts and progress of all its participants. Thus, it is extremely …

In peer-to-peer multiplayer games, each peer must send periodic updates of its objects to
other peers. Since typical broadband users have little upload bandwidth, updates to each …

Since the huge success of online games and especially that of so called Massively
Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), the prevention of cheating has been a primary concern …

There is provided a system and method for dynamic adaptive player cells for multi-player
environments. There is provided a method comprising establishing connections to host …

Virtually all multiplayer location-based games require the players to meet in the same
geographic place during the same period of time. As a consequence, significant …