Design issues for peer-to-peer massively multiplayer online games

Lu Fan; Phil Trinder; Hamish Taylor

doi:10.1504/IJAMC.2010.032138

Design issues for peer-to-peer massively multiplayer online games

Lu Fan, Phil Trinder, Hamish Taylor

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Abstract

Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are increasing in both popularity and scale, and while classical Client/Server (C/S) architectures convey some benefits, they suffer from significant technical and commercial drawbacks. This realisation has sparked intensive research interest in adapting MMOGs to Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architectures. This paper articulates a comprehensive set of six design issues to be addressed by P2P MMOGs, namely Interest Management (IM), game event dissemination, Non-Player Character (NPC) host allocation, game state persistency, cheating mitigation and incentive mechanisms. Design alternatives for each issue are systematically compared, and their interrelationships discussed. We further evaluate how well representative P2P MMOG architectures fulfil the design criteria. Copyright © 2010 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	108-125
Number of pages	18
Journal	International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication
Volume	4
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAMC.2010.032138
Publication status	Published - Mar 2010

Keywords

Anticheating
Collaboration incentives
Distributed storage
Event dissemination
IM
Interest Management
Massively Multiplayer Online Games
MMOGs
P2P
Peer-to-Peer
Task distribution

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