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Title

Measuring the auto-correlation of server to client traffic in 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). Past work has dealt with packet size and packet interarrival times without consideration of packet size autocorrelations. Packet size auto-correlation is an important element in the creation of plausible traffic generators for network simulators such as ns-2 and omnet++. In this paper we present an analysis of the auto-correlation of packet size for Half-Life, Half-Life Counterstrike, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 Counterstrike, Quake III Arena and Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. We show that packet sizes appear to be autocorrelated.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

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

Source

Proceedings of the Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC 2006), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 04-06 December 2006, p. 308-312

Publication year

2006

Keyword(s)

Network applications;  Games;  Services;  Teletraffic analysis;  Traffic engineering

Publisher

University of Melbourne

ISBN

0977586103

Publisher URL

http://www.ee.unimelb.edu.au/atnac2006/programs/day2.html

Copyright

Copyright © 2006 ATNAC Australia and the authors. Published version of this paper reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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