The rapid increase in mobile phone usage among Gen Z online gamers has become more
prevalent due to the pandemic. However, the limited processing power of mobile devices …

Developing distributed multiplayer games for ad-hoc networks is challenging. Consistency
of the replicated shared state is hard to ensure at a low cost. Current consistency models …

This book contains the research on modeling bodies, cloth and character based adaptation
performed during the last 3 years at MIRALab at the University of Geneva. More than ten …

This paper presents an algorithm for creating and maintaining a dynamic localized peer-to-
peer overlay network with its main application to massively multiplayer games. In these …

Cloud platforms deploy data centers geographically distributed around the world and
application providers select cloud infrastructures based on the requirements of their …

Data replication is a very relevant technique for improving performance, availability, and
scalability. These are requirements of many applications such as multiplayer distributed …

With the increasing popularity of massively multi-player online games (MMOGs), developers
are continually forced to deal with the conflicting requirements of supporting a large number …

Spatial publish subscribe (SPS) is a basic primitive underlying many real-time, interactive
applications such as online games or discrete-time simulations. Supporting SPS on a large …

Existing architectures designed to host large-scale virtual environments (VEs) use a variety
of approaches, but they often limit the interaction range with other users or with the VE. How …

Virtual worlds are both computation and communication intensive as they provide rich
content and frequent updates to players for an improved performance. Virtual worlds use …