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 …

Applying peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture to online video games has already attracted both
academic and industrial interests, since it removes the need for expensive server …

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 …

Evaluating DVE topology management and message propagation schemes requires avatar
movement models. Most models are based on reasoned assumptions rather than measured …

This paper identifies and analyzes the key design approaches that have been proposed
over the last decade to construct a peer-to-peer (P2P) networked virtual environment (NVE) …

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 …

Although much of the research into massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) focuses
on scalability concerns, other issues such as the existence of cheating have an equally large …

Looking at the evolution of the Internet in recent years one can observe that Massive
Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVEs) have grown increasingly popular. Especially the …

Today, highly successful Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) have millions of
registered users and hundreds of thousands of active concurrent players. To sustain their …

There has been significant research effort into peer-to-peer (P2P) massively multi-user
virtual environments (MMVEs). A number of architectures have been proposed to implement …