4. NETGAMES 2005: Hawthorne, NY, USA

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NETGAMES 2005, Hawthorne, New York, USA, October 10-11, 2005. ACM 2005, ISBN 1-59593-156-2

Mobile and wireless games

Swee Ann Tan, William Lau, Allan Loh:
Networked game mobility model for first-person-shooter games. 1-9
Angie Chandler, Joe Finney:
On the effects of loose causal consistency in mobile multiplayer games. 1-11
Leo Petrak, Olaf Landsiedel, Klaus Wehrle:
Framework for evaluation of networked mobile games. 1-7
Andreas Janecek, Helmut Hlavacs:
Programming interactive real-time games over WLAN for pocket PCs with J2ME and .NET CF. 1-8

Cheating and fairness

Patric Kabus, Wesley W. Terpstra, Mariano Cilia, Alejandro P. Buchmann:
Addressing cheating in distributed MMOGs. 1-6
Jeff Jianxin Yan, Brian Randell:
A systematic classification of cheating in online games. 1-9
Sudhir Aggarwal, Hemant Banavar, Sarit Mukherjee, Sampath Rangarajan:
Fairness in dead-reckoning based distributed multi-player games. 1-10

Multiplayer game architectures

Bart De Vleeschauwer, Bruno Van Den Bossche, Tom Verdickt, Filip De Turck, Bart Dhoedt, Piet Demeester:
Dynamic microcell assignment for massively multiplayer online gaming. 1-7
Yugo Kaneda, Hitomi Takahashi, Masato Saito, Hiroto Aida, Hideyuki Tokuda:
A challenge for reusing multiplayer online games without modifying binaries. 1-9
Shinya Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Murata, Keiichi Yasumoto, Minoru Ito:
A distributed event delivery method with load balancing for MMORPG. 1-8

Online gaming services

Chris Chambers, Wu-chang Feng:
Patch scheduling for on-line games. 1-6
Li Tang, Jun Li, Jin Zhou, Zhizhi Zhou, Hao Wang, Kai Li:
FreeRank: implementing independent ranking service for multiplayer online games. 1-7
Steven Gargolinski, Christopher St. Pierre, Mark Claypool:
Game server selection for multiple players. 1-6

Game traffic characterization

Mark Claypool:
On the 802.11 turbulence of nintendo DS and sony PSP hand-held network games. 1-9
Jaecheol Kim, Jaeyoung Choi, Dukhyun Chang, Taekyoung Kwon, Yanghee Choi, Eungsu Yuk:
Traffic characteristics of a massively multi-player online role playing game. 1-8
Sebastian Zander, David Kennedy, Grenville J. Armitage:
Dissecting server-discovery traffic patterns generated by multiplayer first person shooter games. 1-12

Network effects on games

Matthias Dick, Oliver Wellnitz, Lars C. Wolf:
Analysis of factors affecting players' performance and perception in multiplayer games. 1-7
Masaki Fujimoto, Yutaka Ishibashi:
Packetization interval of haptic media in networked virtual environments. 1-6
Takahiro Yasui, Yutaka Ishibashi, Tomohito Ikedo:
Influences of network latency and packet loss on consistency in networked racing games. 1-8
Tobias Fritsch, Hartmut Ritter, Jochen H. Schiller:
The effect of latency and network limitations on MMORPGs: a field study of everquest2. 1-9