VoroGame: A Hybrid P2P Architecture for Massively Multiplayer Games

Author

Buyukkaya, Eliya ; Abdallah, Maha ; Cavagna, Romain

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Inf. de Paris 6, Univ. Paris 6, Paris

fYear

2009

fDate

10-13 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures have recently become very popular in massively multiplayer games (MMGs). While P2P gaming offers high scalability compared to client/server architectures, it introduces several major issues related to data distribution and game state consistency. In this paper, we report our initial version of VoroGame, a P2P architecture for MMGs that addresses these issues by combining a structured P2P overlay based on a distributed hash table (DHT) for data distribution, with a Voronoi diagram used for virtual game world decomposition and semantic overlay support. The resulting hybrid architecture enables a fully distributed management of data and state information, and ensures efficient dissemination of game state updates to relevant peers.

Keywords

client-server systems; computational geometry; computer games; cryptography; peer-to-peer computing; software architecture; VoroGame; Voronoi diagram; client-server architectures; data distribution; distributed hash table; distributed management; game state updates dissemination; hybrid P2P architecture; massively multiplayer games; peer-to-peer architectures; semantic overlay support; state information; virtual game world decomposition; Broadcasting; Computer architecture; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Scalability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2009. CCNC 2009. 6th IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2308-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2309-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784788

Filename

4784788