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TNC'98 Proceedings of the TERENA networking conference '98 on Towards networking and services in the year 2001
Traffic characteristics of a massively multi-player online role playing game
NetGames '05 Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games
Latency and player actions in online games
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MMORPG Player actions: Network performance, session patterns and latency requirements analysis
Multimedia Tools and Applications
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MMSys '10 Proceedings of the first annual ACM SIGMM conference on Multimedia systems
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Review: Packet-level traffic analysis of online games from the genre characteristics perspective
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Traffic modeling of player action categories in a MMORPG
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Proceedings of the 10th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games
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In Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) players can perform various actions in the virtual world. We try to answer the question how is generated network traffic, and to what extent, dependent of the action that player performs and overall context/situation in the virtual world. We have divided action types in four major categories: questing, trading, raiding, and player versus player (PvP) combat. We have carried out action-specific measurements of the network traffic for the World of Warcraft (WoW) game and gathered 1.28 GB of data on which the analysis was performed. The traffic analysis included network bandwidth usage, packet payload size, percentage of data packets in the total traffic, packet rate, and packet interarrival and interdeparture times. While the category of PvP combat has highest overall demands on the client side traffic, raiding imposes highest demands on the server side. Trading showed lowest demands on the both sides in almost all categories of the analysis.