Online video games and cloud gaming are rapidly growing in pervasiveness. Their resource
demands can put significant stress on the global communication infrastructure. And network …

In this paper, we present a novel distributed algorithm that dynamically selects game servers
for a group of game clients participating in large scale interactive online games. The goal of …

Supporting thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of players is a requirement that
must be satisfied when delivering server based online gaming as a commercial concern …

Networked Graphics equips programmers and designers with a thorough grounding in the
techniques used to create truly network-enabled computer graphics and games. Written for …

This paper presents a scalable peer-to-peer communication architecture suitable for
supporting networked virtual environments that does not require costly dedicated servers or …

Distributed virtual environments such as massive multi-player games require multiple
servers to balance computational load. This paper investigates the architecture of a unified …

A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) lets thousands of players interact
simultaneously within a virtual world via the Internet. Middleware plays an important role in …

Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are becoming a very important part of
computer entertainment business. With the recent development of broadband technologies …

Building a distributed middleware infrastructure that provides the low latency required for
massively multiplayer games while still maintaining consistency is non-trivial. Previous …

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 …