An Overview of Networking Infrastructure for Massively Multiplayer Online Games

This paper provides a review on the existing networking infrastructure solutions for MMOGs, and description and comparison of different implementation techniques for the deployment of massive multiplayer on-line games, which work as a client/server and peer-to-peer paradigms. A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) is a networked computer or video game in which tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of players may interact with one another in real-time in a shared environment, even though these users may be separated by vast geographic distances. In the last decade the popularity of MMOGs has exploded. Unfortunately, the demand has far outweighed the resources commercial game providers can provide. Many MMOGs are suffering from scalability issues, resulting in game world partitioning, service down time and server crashes. The centralized server architecture of most modern day MMOGs is unable to cope with this increase in the number of participating players. Hence, there is a need for a scalable network architecture which can support these large number of players without affecting the overall gaming experience for each player. In this paper, we provide a review on the existing networking infrastructure solutions for MMOGs. This includes description and comparison of different implementation techniques for the deployment of massive multiplayer on-line games, which work as a client/server and peer-to-peer paradigms.

Cloud infrastructure for the metaverse

MMORPGs – Massively – multiplayer – online – role-playing games

Building a serverless multi-player game that scales

New World Game Architecture - DEV Community

Online Gaming Statistics: 16 Facts that Will Blow You Away

Game Traffic Analysis: An MMORPG Perspective

PDF) Network infrastructure for massively distributed games

Alibaba Cloud Gaming Architecture for Infrastructure Whitepaper

An Overview of Networking Infrastructure for Massively Multiplayer

Hybrid architecture for client-server mobile multiplayer games

PDF) A Comparison of Architectures in Massive Multiplayer Online Games

Riot Games' 'valorant' use of Edge computing - DCD

An Overview of Networking Infrastructure for Massively Multiplayer

PDF) Network infrastructure for massively distributed games