Paper Info
Title
Trends in evolution of the network traffic of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
Abstract
The history of online video games spans over 30 years, with Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) being one of the most popular genres. Constant evolution of MMORPGs has also brought along the need to understand how emerging game mechanisms and design choices affect the game data traffic characteristics. This paper presents a network data traffic analysis of Guild Wars 2 (GW2), an MMORPG released in 2012, with the idea to draw a comparison between GW2 and older MMORPGs, the characteristics of which are already known from previous studies, and to provide insight into the network traffic trends in this genre. For GW2 analysis, we use game data traffic collected over five weeks' time in an Internet Service Provider core network. The dataset consists of anonymized packet traces corresponding to 19 players who agreed to their network traffic being captured during gameplay. We analyze traffic characteristics, such as packet size, packet inter-arrival times, throughput, and duration of the playing sessions, along with the participants' basic demographic information and their use of voice communication during game play.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ConTEL.2015.7231199
2015 13th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL)
Keywords
Field
DocType
massively multiplayer online role-playing games,online video games,MMORPG,game mechanisms,design choices,game data traffic characteristics,Guild Wars 2,network data traffic analysis,GW2,network traffic trends,game data traffic,Internet service provider core network,anonymized packet traces,traffic characteristics,packet size,packet interarrival times,playing sessions,demographic information,voice communication
Traffic analysis,Computer science,Core network,Internet traffic engineering,Network packet,Server,Computer network,Throughput,Role playing,Multimedia,Market research
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
16
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mirko Suznjevic120516.97
maja matijasevic225925.95