Improving online gaming experience using location awareness and interaction details

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• 作者：Dewan Tanvir Ahmed (1) dahmed@discover.uottawa.ca
  Shervin Shirmohammadi (1) shervin@discover.uottawa.ca
• 关键词：Networked games – ; Client– ; server – ; Latency – ; Lag compensation – ; Synchronization – ; Performance
• 刊名：Multimedia Tools and Applications
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：November 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：61
• 期：1
• 页码：163-180
• 全文大小：1.3 MB
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• 作者单位：1. Distributed and Collaborative Virtual Environments Research Laboratory, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
• ISSN：1573-7721

文摘

Latency is a key element for online game quality and user experience. The client–server approach is a widely used system supporting hundreds of thousands of players on a regular basis. However, if latency among players via an intermediate server is large, timely interaction for them could be difficult. In this article, we present a procedure to share game states for a group of players within their area of interaction so that players can comply with stringent time-constraint and improve their game experience. As players move around in a game space, so do their virtual positions. In addition, the relative orientation of players within an area of interaction is unpredictable which indeed changes quite frequently. Because of these facts, we cannot make a predefined rule set for message exchange among players. So a message exchange plan currently working well might have low efficiency after a while due to dynamic changes. In our procedure, considering the importance of interaction, relative orientation, and virtual and geographical locations, we devise a message exchange plan that works alone in each client machine with the local information available. Significant performance improvements are noticed through simulations, validating our approach.