Load-balancing for peer-to-peer networked virtual environment

  • Authors:
  • Hsiu-Hui Lee;Chin-Hua Sun

  • Affiliations:
  • National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC;National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • NetGames '06 Proceedings of 5th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The trend of games is online games. Most MMORPGs (Massive Multi-user Online Role Playing Games) we can see today are based on client-server architecture. This causes some disadvantages as follows: the server is very expensive and the failure of the server fails the whole game. Besides, the vendor of a game need to provide several servers to allow more players playing at the same time, but players connect to different servers are in the different virtual environments. This paper provides a peer-to-peer architecture with dynamic status information distribution (DSID) mechanism for MMORPG to address the issues occurred in the client-server architecture. We hope to construct a low-cost and flexible architecture that allows all players to interact to each other in the same virtual environment.