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NGC 2003, ICQT 2003: Group Communications and Charges. Technology and Business Models pp 214–225Cite as

The Performance of Software Multicast-Reflector Implementations for Multi-player Online Games

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Massive multi-player online games are large distributed applications where thousands of participants exchange data. Existing solutions based on central servers face scalability problems. We study a hybrid solution between the peer-to-peer and central server models that divides a large game into several federated small games. The central component of this architecture is a multicast reflector. We present two efficient software implementations that have been developed as Linux kernel extensions and compare them with our user-space implementation. The comparison is based on performance measurements done on actual implementations.

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  1. Zurich Laboratory, IBM Research, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803, Rüschlikon, Switzerland

    Daniel Bauer & Sean Rooney

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  1. Department of Informatics IFI, University of Zurich, Binzmühlestrasse 14, CH—8050, Zürich, Switzerland

    Burkhard Stiller

  2. Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, University of Tübingen, Germany

    Georg Carle

  3. School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University AveW, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Martin Karsten

  4. Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Donau-City-Str. 1, 1220, Vienna, Austria

    Peter Reichl

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Bauer, D., Rooney, S. (2003). The Performance of Software Multicast-Reflector Implementations for Multi-player Online Games. In: Stiller, B., Carle, G., Karsten, M., Reichl, P. (eds) Group Communications and Charges. Technology and Business Models. NGC ICQT 2003 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2816. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39405-1_19

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