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Title

Extrapolating server to client IP traffic from empirical measurements of first person shooter games

Author(s)

Branch, Philip A.;  Armitage, Grenville J.

Abstract

Modelling traffic generated by Internet based multiplayer computer games has attracted a great deal of attention in the past few years. In part this has been driven by a desire to properly simulate the network impact of highly interactive online game genres such as the first person shooter (FPS). Packet size distributions are an important element in the creation of plausible traffic generators for network simulators such as ns-2 and omnet++. In this paper we present a simple technique for creating representative packet size distributions for N-player FPS games based on empirically measured traffic of 2- and 3-player games. We illustrate the likely generality of our approach using data from Half-Life, Half-Life Counterstrike, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 Counterstrike, Quake III Arena and Wolfenstein Enemy Territory.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures

Source

Proceedings of 5th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games (Netgames 2006), Singapore, 30-31 October 2006

Publication year

2006

Keyword(s)

Computer systems organisation;  Computer-communication networks;  Design;  First person shooter;  Games;  Internet;  Local and wide-area networks;  Measurement;  Performance;  Network operations;  Network monitoring;  TCP/IP;  Teletraffic analysis;  Traffic engineering

Publisher

ACM Press

ISBN

1595935894

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1230040.1230092

Copyright

Copyright © 2006 ACM.

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