Measurement and analysis of World of Warcraft in mobile WiMAX networks

Author

Wang, Xiaofei ; Kim, Hyunchul ; Vasilakos, Athanasios V. ; Kwon, Ted Taekyoung ; Choi, Yanghee ; Choi, Sunghyun ; Jang, Hanyoung

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Seoul Nat. Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

23-24 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Online games have been played mainly over wired networks due to high speed links and capable desktop computers. The advances in mobile devices and ever increasing wireless link bandwidth motivate us to study whether players can enjoy online gaming over broadband wireless networks such as mobile WiMAX networks. In this paper we carry out the World of Warcraft (WoW) measurements via the mobile WiMAX networks and analysis the performance. We focus on two aspects: (1) application level packet dynamics such as RTT and jitter; (2) WiMAX link level statistics such as wireless link quality and handovers. We measure various scenarios for comprehensive analysis of WoW traffic and WiMAX link-layer characteristics. Finally we discuss how to improve the service quality of WiMAX online gaming.

Keywords

WiMax; computer games; mobile computing; statistics; RTT dynamics; WoW analysis; WoW measurement; World of Warcraft game; application level packet dynamics; handovers; jitter dynamics; link level statistics; mobile WiMAX networks; online games; wireless link quality; Bandwidth; Delay; Performance analysis; Performance loss; Telecommunication computing; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services; WiMAX; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks; Measurement; WiMAX; analysis; online game;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames), 2009 8th Annual Workshop on

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5603-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5604-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NETGAMES.2009.5446236

Filename

5446236