Computer games, one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the world, are
increasingly online multiplayer, connecting geographically dispersed players in the same …

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 …

To support effective exploration, it is often stated that interactive visualizations should
provide rapid response times. However, the effects of interactive latency on the process and …

The memory coherence problem in designing and implementing a shared virtual memory on
loosely coupled multiprocessors is studied in depth. Two classes of algorithms, centralized …

Space industry upstarts are deploying thousands of satellites to offer global Internet service.
These plans promise large improvements in coverage and latency, and could fundamentally …

Latency and player actions in online games Page 1 40 November 2006/Vol. 49, No. 11
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM The growth and penetration of broadband access networks …

Gaming on phones, tablets and laptops is very popular. Cloud gaming-where remote
servers perform game execution and rendering on behalf of thin clients that simply send …

The stated goal for visual data exploration is to operate at a rate that matches the pace of
human data analysts, but the ever increasing amount of data has led to a fundamental …

In this paper we analyse different factors affecting players' perception and performance in
multiplayer games. We introduce a mean opinion score metric borrowed from the subjective …

The growth in network capacities and availability has been accompanied by a proliferation
of online games. While online games perform well under many network conditions, Internet …