Towards a scalable refereeing system for online gaming

Author

Veron, M. ; Marin, Olivier ; Monnet, Sebastien ; Guessoum, Zahia

Author_Institution

Lab. d´Inf. de Paris 6, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

fYear

2012

fDate

22-23 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Refereeing for Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) currently relies on centralized architectures, which facilitates cheat prevention but also prohibits MMOGs from scaling properly. Centralization limits the size of the virtual world as well as the number of players that can evolve in it. The present paper shows that it is possible to design a peer-to-peer refereeing system that remains highly efficient, even on a large scale, both in terms of performance and in terms of cheat prevention. Simulations show that such a system scales easily to more than 30,000 nodes while leaving less than 0.013% occurrences of cheating undetected on a mean total of 24,819,649 refereeing queries.

Keywords

computer games; peer-to-peer computing; query processing; MMOG; centralized architectures; cheat prevention; massively multiplayer online games; peer-to-peer scalable refereeing system design; refereeing queries; virtual world; Central Processing Unit; Computer architecture; Engines; Games; Peer to peer computing; Servers; USA Councils; distributed refereeing; massively multiplayer online gaming; reputation system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames), 2012 11th Annual Workshop on

Conference_Location

Venice

ISSN

2156-8138

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4576-7

Electronic_ISBN

2156-8138

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NetGames.2012.6404018

Filename

6404018