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 …

Virtual worlds have become global platforms connecting millions of people and containing
various technologies. For example, No Man's Sky (nomanssky. com), a cross-platform virtual …

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 …

Multiplayer online video games are a multibillion-dollar industry, to which widespread
cheating presents a significant threat. Game designers compromise on game security to …

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 …

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 …

This paper proposes an architecture for Distributed Virtual Environments (DVEs) integrating
cloud and peer nodes. We define the overall structure of the architecture and propose a …

Multi-player online games are inherently distributed applications, and a wide range of
distributed architectures have been proposed. However, only few successful commercial …

In games, the goals and interests of players are key factors in their behavior. However,
techniques used by networked games to cope with infrequent updates and message loss …