A distributed proxy system for provisioning immersive audio communication to massively multi-player games

Authors:
Cong Duc Nguyen;Farzad Safaei;Paul Boustead
Affiliations:
University of Wollongong, Australia;University of Wollongong, Australia;University of Wollongong, Australia
Venue:
Proceedings of 3rd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games
Year:
2004

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On the provision of immersive audio communication to massively multi-player online games

ISCC '04 Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Computers and Communications 2004 Volume 2 (ISCC"04) - Volume 02

Optimal assignment of distributed servers to virtual partitionsfor the provision of immersive voice communicationin massively multiplayer games

Computer Communications

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Abstract

This paper evaluates the suitability of a distributed proxy architecture for the provision of an immersive audio communication service for massively multi-player online games. The immersive audio communication service enables each avatar to hear a realistic audio mix of conversations in its hearing range. The proxy architecture is presented to address some limitations of previously proposed architectures, namely peer-to-peer and central server. We have developed a simulation model to evaluate the performance these delivery architectures in different game delivery scenarios. In particular, the bandwidth efficiency of network multicast for the proxy architecture in different avatar grouping behaviours and player distribution scenarios is studied. In addition, we investigate the impact of varying the number of proxy servers on the game communication delays.