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 increasing popularity of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG)--games involving
thousands of players participating simultaneously in a single virtual world-has highlighted …

Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are increasing in both popularity and scale,
and while classical Client/Server (C/S) architectures convey some benefits, they suffer from …

The gaming industry is affected by two key issues---cheating and DDoS attacks against
game servers. In this paper, we aim to present a novel yet concrete application of the …

This paper proposes a joint feature-based model indexing and geometric constraint based
alignment pipeline for efficient and accurate recognition of 3D objects from a large model …

Je tiens à remercier très particulièrement mon encadreur pour sa grande patience,
compréhension et surtout la confiance qu'elle a mise en moi durant mes années d'étude en …

The Mirrored Server (MS) architecture uses multiple mirrored servers across multiple
locations to alleviate the bandwidth bottleneck in the Client/Server (C/S) architecture. Each …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures provide better scalability than Client/Server (C/S) for
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG); however, they increase the possibility of …

The lack of a trusted central authority poses a unique security challenge to peer-to-peer
networks. It must be assumed that some fraction of all peers in a network are corrupt and …

Dark Souls is a notoriously difficult video game that alienates most people from trying it. This
article explains what makes Dark Souls a good game through the description of its …