Distribution of first person shooter online multiplayer games

  • Authors:

  • Grenville Armitage;Philip Branch

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, 3122 Victoria, Australia.;Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, 3122 Victoria, Australia

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper uses data captured during our online game trials to answer some fundamental questions regarding game distribution for online, first person shooter games. First person shooter games are popular, generate large amounts of traffic and have stringent delay requirements. They offer both great opportunities and great challenges to games distributors. We deal with three key issues in this paper. The first is tolerable network latency. This is addressed through identifying the limits to latency that customers will accept. The second is jitter. We show that jitter is highly correlated with latency and so managing latency effectively manages jitter. Finally, we provide a simple model of game traffic that will enable game distributors to estimate the networking requirements for their deployment.