A geographic redirection service for on-line games
MULTIMEDIA '03 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM international conference on Multimedia
An Efficient Synchronization Mechanism for Mirrored Game Architectures
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Addressing cheating in distributed MMOGs
NetGames '05 Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games
Dynamic microcell assignment for massively multiplayer online gaming
NetGames '05 Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games
Load balancing for massively multiplayer online games
NetGames '06 Proceedings of 5th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games
A Dynamic Area of Interest Management and Collaboration Model for P2P MMOGs
DS-RT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
Persistence in massively multiplayer online games
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games
Dynamic server allocation in a real-life deployable communications architecture for networked games
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games
Latency reduction by dynamic core selection and partial migration of game state
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games
Tackling online game development problems with a novel network scripting language
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games
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Current-generation Massively Multiplayer Online Games MMOG, such as World of Warcraft, Eve Online, and Second Life are mainly built on distributed client-server architectures with server allocation based on sharding, static geographical partitioning, dynamic micro-cell scheme, or optimal server for placing a virtual region according to the geographical dispersion of players. This paper reviews various approaches on data replication and region partitioning. Management of areas of interest field of vision is discussed, which reduces processing load dramatically by updating players only with those events that occur within their area of interest. This can be managed either through static geographical partitioning on the basis of the assumption that players in one region do not see/interact with players in other regions, or behavioural modelling based on players' behaviours. The authors investigate data storage and synchronisation methods for MMOG databases, mainly on relational databases. Several attempts of peer to peer P2P architectures and protocols for MMOGs are reviewed, and critical issues such as cheat prevention on P2P MMOGs are highlighted.