A geographic redirection service for on-line games

  • Authors:
  • Chris Chambers;Wu-chi Feng;Wu-chang Feng;Debanjan Saha

  • Affiliations:
  • OGI@OHSU;OGI@OHSU;OGI@OHSU;IBM Research

  • Venue:
  • MULTIMEDIA '03 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

For many on-line games, user experience is impacted significantly by network latency. As on-line games and on-line game servers proliferate, the ability to discover and connect to nearby servers is essential for maintaining user satisfaction. In this paper, we present a redirection service for on-line games based on the geographic location of players relative to servers. As our results show, the service better meets client demand, saving each client and the Internet as a whole, thousands of miles of networking inefficiency.