Modeling system performance in MMORPG

Huang, Gao; Meng, Yanmei; Cheng, Long

doi:10.1109/glocomw.2004.1417630

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“…Occasionally, it may require the host to shut down the game server for maintenance temporarily. The host should inform the players in advance and ensure maintenance timeliness (Huang et al, 2004). In TalesRunner, there were a few occasions that FunTown had to extend the server downtime for maintenance.…”

Section: Stage 2 -Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

The anti-ageing secret of massively multiplayer online game: Managing its lifecycle

2021

Australian Journal of Management

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It is estimated that from 2015 to 2025, the Global Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) market will be growing at a compound annual growth rate of 10.2%. However, rapid market changes have shortened the lifespan of many MMOGs. This market phenomenon may demotivate prospective market players and thus decelerate the market growth. To address the lifespan issue, we conducted a netnographic case study on ‘TalesRunner’, which has successfully operated for longer than many other MMOGs. Based on the data from over 5.2 million messages from its official forum, as well as data from different secondary sources, we established a lifecycle model of MMOG in conjunction with the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework and offered theoretical implications for both MMOG and lifecycle theory. JEL Classification: M15

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Section: Stage 2 -Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

The anti-ageing secret of massively multiplayer online game: Managing its lifecycle

2021

Australian Journal of Management

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“…The state of system overload is determined by the number of concurrent players playing in the MS. According to many authors, this is the most important factor for determining the overload condition in MMOFPS [2,5,8], as it has been proved experimentally that the number of concurrent players is directly related to the CPU and network usage. When the MS is overloaded, new player connections will be enqueued to the WQ.…”

Section: System Operationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping MMOFPS over heterogeneous distributed systems

Barri¹,

Roig²,

Giné³

et al. 2011

J Supercomput

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This paper evaluates the effects on performance of taking the heterogeneity of nodes into account, in terms of number of cores, when MMOFPS (Massively Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter) game services are distributed. Two mapping strategies, Non_Heterogeneity_aware and Heterogeneity_aware, are integrated in a system, called OnDeGaS (On Demand Game Service), which is a hybrid between Client-Server and P2P topologies. Through simulation, we show that the Heterogeneity_aware mechanism has more impact in communication costs, but it is more efficient in exploiting the nodes of the P2P area, as it maps players faster and it creates less computing zones with latency values under the acceptable threshold for MMOFPS games.

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“…1 With the recent widespread deployment of broadband access technologies, the increase of the number simultaneous online users is putting pressure on both SL servers and ISPs network infrastructure and demanding an in-depth traffic analysis of the SL's network behavior. Regarding to the development of synthetic traffic models, there are a number of research papers available in the literature, including those related to massive on-line games [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. In [8,9], Lang et al measured and analyzed data from two on-line games, namely Quake 3 and Half-Life, and described their respective packet-level traffic models.…”

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Traffic analysis and synthetic models of second life

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Virtual Worlds (VW), such as Massive Multiplayer Online Social Games, have been gaining increasing attention in the last few years, mainly due to the new way users interact with them. However, little effort has been devoted to understand their traffic profile and the implications to the traffic management area. With the current growing rate of VWs' usage, their traffic demand could eventually impose a significant burden on the operation of a typical Internet Service Provider (ISP) network. In this paper, we seek to understand the traffic behavior of an increasingly popular VW application, namely Second Life (SL), from both the connection and network level perspectives. We also show results of a traffic analysis of a SL client, when an avatar performs different actions in the VW, at different places and under different network conditions. Our results show that SL makes intensive use of network resources (mostly bandwidth), since the capacity needed for having a full SL experience (listening to live music) may reach 500 kbps. We then extend the traffic analysis work on SL by providing analytical models for its traffic profile. We aim at helping the network management and planning area to estimate the impact of an intense use of such VW on access links or core networks. Such synthetic models are also useful to the networking research community for the use in network simulations.

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Modeling system performance in MMORPG

Cited by 18 publications

References 18 publications

The anti-ageing secret of massively multiplayer online game: Managing its lifecycle

The anti-ageing secret of massively multiplayer online game: Managing its lifecycle

Mapping MMOFPS over heterogeneous distributed systems

Traffic analysis and synthetic models of second life

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