Traffic Recognition and Characterization Analysis of MMORPG

Author

Liu, Fang ; Yan, Guotao ; Zhou, Wenli

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Eng., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing

fYear

2006

fDate

27-30 Nov. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A significant share of today´s Internet traffic is generated by online games. Unlike traditional services provided by Internet, such as WWW, FTP, SMTP, etc, online games use dynamic ports in transport layer, which causes trouble to traffic recognition from massive Internet traffic. In this paper, a way to recognize MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer online Role Playing Games) traffic is proposed. In this method, MMORPG traffic is recognized by payload inspection. As an illustration of this method, the whole procedure of traffic recognition of Legend in Mir, a popular MMORPG in China, is presented. Furthermore, traffic bandwidth of upload and download, packet length distribution and packet interval distribution are analyzed in detail.

Keywords

Internet; computer games; telecommunication traffic; Internet traffic; MMORPG traffic recognition; characterization analysis; dynamic ports; massive multiplayer online role playing games; online games; packet interval distribution; packet length distribution; payload inspection; traffic bandwidth; transport layer; Character generation; Character recognition; IP networks; Information analysis; Inspection; Payloads; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Technology, 2006. ICCT '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0800-8

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0801-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCT.2006.341783

Filename

4146384