Paper Info
Title
Effects of user behavior on MMORPG traffic
Abstract
Game traffic depends on two main factors, the game protocol and the gamers' behavior. Based on a few popular real-time multiplayer games, this paper investigates the latter factor showing how a set of typical game phases-e.g., player movement, changes in environment-impacts traffic. By understanding the nature of this impact an algorithm is introduced to grab specific events and states from passive traffic measurements. Further, a measurement example including a detailed analysis is shown from an operational broadband network. The collected data of player behavior in the gaming environment was analyzed and it was also shown that the long range dependence (LRD) property of gaming traffic is not due to the popular explanation based on the heavy-tailed periods of player activities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICC.2009.5198966
ICC
Keywords
Field
DocType
typical game phases-e,gaming traffic,environment-impacts traffic,player movement,game protocol,game traffic,player behavior,user behavior,player activity,mmorpg traffic,passive traffic measurement,popular real-time multiplayer game,broadband network,consumer behaviour,environmental economics,data mining,games,heavy tail,pixel,protocols,human behavior,real time,statistics,bandwidth,broadband networks
Broadband communication,Computer science,Consumer behaviour,Computer network,Bandwidth (signal processing),Broadband networks,Communications society
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
6
0.53
References 
Authors
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Géza Szabó1958.87
András Veres254351.85
Sándor Molnár330638.56