Online gaming is one of the most profitable businesses over the Internet. Among all genres
of the online games, the popularity of the MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role …

Quantifying the latency sensitivity of potential customers/players is critical for Internet-based
game providers when planning the network placement of their game servers. Two Quake 3 …

A significant share of today's Internet traffic is generated by network gaming. This kind of
traffic is interesting in regard to it's market potential as well as to it's real time requirements …

There have been several studies in the past years that investigate the impact of network
delay on multi-user applications. Primary examples of these applications are real-time …

This paper describes the results of the first comprehensive analysis of a range of popular on-
line, multiplayer, game servers. The results show that the traffic behavior of these servers is …

This paper describes the results of a 500 million packet trace of a popular on-line, multi-
player, game server. The results show that the traffic behavior of this heavily loaded game …

Recent online games exert increasing impact on network traffic. While considerable
research efforts have been placed on the study of game network traffic, most studies …

Multiplayer online games represent one of the most popular forms of networked group
communication on the Internet today. We have been running a server for a first-person …

In this paper we attempt to gain an understanding of the behaviour of users in a multipoint,
interactive communication scenario. In particular, we wish to understand the dynamics of …

In this work, we propose a Hidden Markov Model for Internet traffic sources at packet level,
jointly analyzing Inter Packet Time and Packet Size. We give an analytical basis and the …