A federated peer-to-peer game is one in which many small areas of interest within a game
each supported using a peer-to-peer model are" knitted" together to form a game capable of …

In a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) application for ambient pollution monitoring, which
involves the deployment of a large number (ie~ 100) of sensors in India and UK to obtain …

Revenues generated by video games typically surpass those provided by the
cinematography industry. The pace of development in hardware and software networking …

The Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) is a promising technology which provides an
online shared virtual world for geographically dispersed people to interact with each other …

Whereas much of the recent thrust in IP multicast standardization has focused on multicast
routing and other supplementary infrastructure for multicast, the reach to/from end-systems …

Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a game genre which allows
thousands of people to connect and role-play in a virtual world. Typically, these games are …

Improvement of Multiplayer Online Game (MOG) performance has been addressed by
different means. The number of simultaneous online users, the variable latency of the …

This chapter points out the fundamental concepts at the basis of synchronization in
multiplayer online games (MOGs). It first describes the principal typologies of game …

A computer game is usually considered as a finite state machine. For a distributed
multiplayer game, state information has to be exchanged among its players when they move …

Massive multi-player online games are large distributed applications where thousands of
participants exchange data. Existing solutions based on central servers face scalability …