Supporting first person shooter games with competing traffic in 802.11e MAC

Author

Qi, Hanghang ; Malone, David ; Murali, Ashwin ; Botvich, Dmitri

Author_Institution

Hamilton Inst., Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

fYear

2011

fDate

6-7 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

As real-time multi-player games are increasingly popular network applications nowadays and 802.11 wireless are widely used, it is common that games are played over 802.11 networks. However, game performance can be degraded when competing with background traffic. In this paper, we propose Application Divided Resource Allocation (ADRA) scheme based on 802.11e to support games in a mixed traffic 802.11 environment. Parameter selection and performance improvement are analyzed with our analytic model. Testbed verification validates the effectiveness of our scheme and analysis which provides significant improvements to games performance while sustaining the performance of the background traffic.

Keywords

access protocols; computer games; resource allocation; telecommunication traffic; wireless LAN; 802.11e MAC; application divided resource allocation scheme; background traffic; first person shooter games; game performance; mixed traffic 802.11 environment; network application; parameter selection; performance improvement; real-time multiplayer games; testbed verification; Analytical models; Delay; Games; IEEE 802.11e Standard; Resource management; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames), 2011 10th Annual Workshop on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

2156-8138

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1932-5

Electronic_ISBN

2156-8138

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NetGames.2011.6080986

Filename

6080986