Network-Aware State Update For Large Scale Mobile Games

@inproceedings{citeulike:1834347, abstract = {In large scale mobile gaming environments, efficient mechanisms for state update is crucial to allow graceful real-time interaction of a large number of players, under limited wireless network bandwidth. By using the state updating threshold as a key parameter that bridges the resulting state inconsistency (or distortion) and the network traffic, we are able to model the fundamental traffic-distortion tradeoffs. Given the tradeoffs for all users, an optimal bandwidth allocation can be derived using well-known convex programming techniques. By exploring the temporal locality of gaming behavior, we also propose a prediction method to realize on-line bandwidth adaptation. Using real data trace from a multi-player driving game, the proposed network aware bandwidth allocation method, NABA, is able to achieve significant reduction in state distortion compared to two baselines: Uniform and Proportional policies. NABA is also adaptable to variations in system parameters, including bandwidth constraint and network delay.}, author = {Yu, Yang and Li, Zhu and Shi, Larry and Chen, Yi-Chiun and Xu, Hua }, booktitle = {Computer Communications and Networks, 2007. ICCCN 2007. Proceedings of 16th International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {1834347}, journal = {Computer Communications and Networks, 2007. ICCCN 2007. Proceedings of 16th International Conference on}, keywords = {consistency, mobile, networked\_games}, pages = {563--568}, posted-at = {2007-10-29 05:11:40}, priority = {2}, title = {Network-Aware State Update For Large Scale Mobile Games}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs\_all.jsp?arnumber=4317878}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1834347 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1834347 N2 - In large scale mobile gaming environments, efficient mechanisms for state update is crucial to allow graceful real-time interaction of a large number of players, under limited wireless network bandwidth. By using the state updating threshold as a key parameter that bridges the resulting state inconsistency (or distortion) and the network traffic, we are able to model the fundamental traffic-distortion tradeoffs. Given the tradeoffs for all users, an optimal bandwidth allocation can be derived using well-known convex programming techniques. By exploring the temporal locality of gaming behavior, we also propose a prediction method to realize on-line bandwidth adaptation. Using real data trace from a multi-player driving game, the proposed network aware bandwidth allocation method, NABA, is able to achieve significant reduction in state distortion compared to two baselines: Uniform and Proportional policies. NABA is also adaptable to variations in system parameters, including bandwidth constraint and network delay. JF - Computer Communications and Networks, 2007. ICCCN 2007. Proceedings of 16th International Conference on EP - 568 TI - Network-Aware State Update For Large Scale Mobile Games T2 - Computer Communications and Networks, 2007. ICCCN 2007. Proceedings of 16th International Conference on SP - 563 KW - consistency KW - mobile KW - networked_games AU - Yu, Yang AU - Li, Zhu AU - Shi, Larry AU - Chen, Yi-Chiun AU - Xu, Hua PY - 2007/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4317878 ER -