This file was created by the TYPO3 extension bib --- Timezone: UTC Creation date: 2024-10-06 Creation time: 16-30-08 --- Number of references 2 conference 200803riechemmvecluster 2008 3 18 9-13 Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) have become increasingly popular in the last years. So far the distribution of load, caused by the players in these games, is not distributed dynamically. After the launch of a new game, the introduction of new content, during special ingame events, or also during normal operations, players tend to concentrate in certain regions of the game worlds and cause overload conditions. Therefore we propose the use of structured P2P technology for the server infrastructure of the MMOGs to improve the reliability and scalability. Previous work segmented the game work into rectangular areas; however this approach often split a group of players to different servers, causing additional overhead. This work presents a cluster-based Peer-to-Peer approach, which can be used for load balancing in MMOGs or in other virtual worlds. The system is able to dynamically adapt to the current state of the game and handle uneven distributions of the players in the game world. We show through simulation, also with traces from real online games, that the cluster-based approach performs better than the previous P2P-based systems, which split the world in rectangular areas. RWTH Aachen University - Distributed Systems Group http://www.pap.vs.uni-due.de/MMVE08/papers/proceedings.pdf http://www.pap.vs.uni-due.de/MMVE08/ Online Gregor Schiele, Daniel Weiskopf, Ben Leong, Shun-Yun Hu Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments at IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 (MMVE 2008) Reno, Nevada, USA 1st International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments at IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 (MMVE 2008) March 8th, 2008 en 1 SimonRieche KlausWehrle MarcFouquet HeikoNiedermayer TimoTeifel GeorgCarle article 200812riecheIJAMCcluster International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC) 2008 2 4 351-363 In current Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) the distribution of load is not distributed dynamically. But players tend to concentrate in certain regions of the game world and cause overload conditions. Therefore we propose the use of structured Peer-to-Peer technology for the server infrastructure of the MMOGs to improve the reliability and scalability. Previous work segmented the game work into rectangular areas but often split a group of players to different servers. This work presents a cluster-based P2P approach, which is able to dynamically adapt to the current state of the game and handle uneven distributions of players.Weshow through simulation, also with traces from real online games, that the cluster-based approach performs better than the previous P2P-based system. RWTH Aachen University - Distributed Systems Group http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=67 print en 1462-4613 1 SimonRieche KlausWehrle MarcFouquet HeikoNiedermayer TimoTeifel GeorgCarle