Paper Info
Title
Action specific Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games traffic analysis: case study of World of Warcraft
Abstract
In Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) players can perform various actions in the virtual world. We try to answer the question how is generated network traffic, and to what extent, dependent of the action that player performs and overall context/situation in the virtual world. We have divided action types in four major categories: questing, trading, raiding, and player versus player (PvP) combat. We have carried out action-specific measurements of the network traffic for the World of Warcraft (WoW) game and gathered 1.28 GB of data on which the analysis was performed. The traffic analysis included network bandwidth usage, packet payload size, percentage of data packets in the total traffic, packet rate, and packet interarrival and interdeparture times. While the category of PvP combat has highest overall demands on the client side traffic, raiding imposes highest demands on the server side. Trading showed lowest demands on the both sides in almost all categories of the analysis.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1517494.1517519
NetGames
Keywords
Field
DocType
packet rate,data packet,traffic analysis,total traffic,network traffic,specific massive multiplayer online,games traffic analysis,case study,virtual world,packet interarrival,network bandwidth usage,client side traffic,packet payload size,network performance,virtual worlds
Server-side,Client-side,Traffic analysis,Simulation,Computer science,Network packet,Bandwidth (signal processing),Role playing,Payload
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.72
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mirko Suznjevic120516.97
maja matijasevic225925.95
ognjen dobrijevic3816.63