Latency and player actions in online games

ABSTRACT

Latency determines not only how players experience online gameplay but also how to design the games to mitigate its effects and meet player expectations.

REFERENCES

• 1: Tom Beigbeder , Rory Coughlan , Corey Lusher , John Plunkett , Emmanuel Agu , Mark Claypool, The effects of loss and latency on user performance in unreal tournament 2003®, Proceedings of 3rd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games, August 30-30, 2004, Portland, Oregon, USA [doi>10.1145/1016540.1016556]
• 2: Claypool, M., Claypool, K., and Damaa, F. The effects of frame rate and resolution on users playing first-person shooter games. In Proceedings of ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (San Jose, CA, Jan.). International Society for Optical Engineering, 2006.
• 3: Claypool, M. The effect of latency on user performance in real-time strategy games. Elsevier Computer Networks 49, 1 (Sept. 2005), 52--70.
• 4: Matthias Dick , Oliver Wellnitz , Lars Wolf, Analysis of factors affecting players' performance and perception in multiplayer games, Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games, October 10-11, 2005, Hawthorne, NY [doi>10.1145/1103599.1103624]
• 5: Tobias Fritsch , Hartmut Ritter , Jochen Schiller, The effect of latency and network limitations on MMORPGs: a field study of everquest2, Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games, October 10-11, 2005, Hawthorne, NY [doi>10.1145/1103599.1103623]
• 6: Tristan Henderson , Saleem Bhatti, Networked games: a QoS-sensitive application for QoS-insensitive users?, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Revisiting IP QoS: What have we learned, why do we care?, August 25-27, 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany [doi>10.1145/944592.944601]
• 7: Jaiswal, S., Iannaccone, G., Diot, C., Kurose, J., and Towsley, D. Inferring TCP connection characteristics through passive measurements. In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom (Hong Kong, China, Apr.). IEEE Computer Society, Piscataway, NJ, 2004.
• 8: Tom Jehaes , Danny De Vleeschauwer , Toon Coppens , Bart Van Doorselaer , Eva Deckers , W. Naudts , K. Spruyt , R. Smets, Access network delay in networked games, Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Network and system support for games, p.63-71, May 22-23, 2003, Redwood City, California [doi>10.1145/963900.963906]
• 9: James Nichols , Mark Claypool, The effects of latency on online madden NFL football, Proceedings of the 14th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video, June 16-18, 2004, Cork, Ireland [doi>10.1145/1005847.1005879]
• 10: Lothar Pantel , Lars C. Wolf, On the impact of delay on real-time multiplayer games, Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video, May 12-14, 2002, Miami, Florida, USA [doi>10.1145/507670.507674]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.0 General

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.1 Network Architecture and Design
      C.2.3 Network Operations
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems
      C.2.5 Local and Wide-Area Networks
  C.4 PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEMS

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.8 PERSONAL COMPUTING
      K.8.0 General
          Subjects: Games

General Terms:
Performance