Ejb Design Patterns: Advanced Patterns, Processes, and Idioms with Poster
Ejb Design Patterns: Advanced Patterns, Processes, and Idioms with Poster
A communication architecture for massive multiplayer games
NetGames '02 Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Network and system support for games
SODA: A Service-On-Demand Architecture for Application Service Hosting Utility Platforms
HPDC '03 Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
The effect of latency on user performance in Warcraft III
NetGames '03 Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Network and system support for games
Implementation of a service platform for online games
Proceedings of 3rd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games
Evaluating the Performance of Middleware Load Balancing Strategies
EDOC '04 Proceedings of the Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, Eighth IEEE International
Interest management middleware for networked games
Proceedings of the 2005 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games
An integrated experimental environment for distributed systems and networks
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Locality aware dynamic load management for massively multiplayer games
Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming
Dynamic microcell assignment for massively multiplayer online gaming
NetGames '05 Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games
The effect of latency and network limitations on MMORPGs: a field study of everquest2
NetGames '05 Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games
An Active Self-Optimizing Multiplayer Gaming Architecture
Cluster Computing
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Latency and player actions in online games
Communications of the ACM - Entertainment networking
Task assignment with work-conserving migration
Parallel Computing
Adaptive Support of Range Queries via Push-Pull Algorithms
Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
A platform for dynamic microcell redeployment in massively multiplayer online games
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Optimistic load balancing in a distributed virtual environment
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Evaluating Steiner-tree heuristics and diameter variations for application layer multicast
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Autonomic microcell assignment in massively distributed online virtual environments
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
International Journal of Computers and Applications
Service Middleware for Self-Managing Large-Scale Systems
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
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Networked Virtual Environments (NVEs) and Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) in particular offer huge digital environments characterized by tens of thousands of simultaneous users. To maintain a high Quality of Experience (QoE) these applications are typically hosted on dedicated server clusters and require custom management software which relies on knowledge of the inner workings of the application.We propose the concept of microcells in the design of an MMOG hosting platform capable of hosting contiguous virtual worlds. Microcells are small parts of the virtual world which can be relocated, allowing to dynamically distribute the load over multiple servers and the use of generic management software. In order to evaluate the impact of microcell relocations, a platform prototype has been designed and evaluated with three microcell specific load balancing algorithms. The obtained evaluation results are presented in this paper and the impact of the microcell relocations are characterized in detail.