Empirical study of subjective quality for Massive Multiplayer Games

Author

Ries, Michal ; Svoboda, Philipp ; Rupp, Markus

Author_Institution

Inst. of Commun. & Radio-Freq., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna

fYear

2008

fDate

25-28 June 2008

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

184

Abstract

Online gaming is a member of the real time interactive multimedia services. This service suffers from all impairments on the networking layer that increase the latency, respectively the responsiveness. The quality of service (QoS) of online gaming is becoming an important issue due to a massive increase of online games (Half-life, War-craft) with a significant player community. The purpose of this project is to investigate the impact of network impairments (delay, jitter) on the perceived QoS. We hereby focus on massively multiplayer online games (MMOG), due to their amount of active users and their popularity. The initial step is to develop a test setup for subjective quality evaluation for MMOG games. The final outcome of this paper is to propose a QoS metric for online gaming.

Keywords

computer games; delays; interactive systems; jitter; multimedia computing; quality of service; real-time systems; Half-life; War-craft; delay; jitter; massive multiplayer games; network impairments; online gaming; quality of service; real time interactive multimedia services; subjective quality evaluation; Application software; Communications technology; Delay; Jitter; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Performance analysis; Quality of service; Radio frequency; Testing; Web and internet services; MMOG; QoS; online gaming; quality metric;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Signals and Image Processing, 2008. IWSSIP 2008. 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bratislava

Print_ISBN

978-80-227-2856-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-80-227-2880-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWSSIP.2008.4604397

Filename

4604397