Traffic Analysis and Modeling for World of Warcraft

Author

Svoboda, Poemysl ; Karner, W. ; Rupp, Markus

Author_Institution

Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna

fYear

2007

fDate

24-28 June 2007

Firstpage

1612

Lastpage

1617

Abstract

The popularity of MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games) has grown fast. This new type of online games uses a different type of protocol and has other limitations to delay and packet loss than the classical well established games like FPSs (first person shooters). This paper focuses on the traffic patterns generated by a MMOG named WoW (World of Warcraft). We analyzed IP layer information like packet size and rate from network traces and user level information like session durations. Finally we present a simple synthetic traffic generator for WoW traffic clients.

Keywords

IP networks; computer games; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; IP layer information; User Datagram Protocol; World of Warcraft; massively multiplayer online games; network traces; packet size; protocol; session durations; synthetic traffic generator; traffic analysis; transport control protocol; user level information; Communications Society; Delay; Electronic mail; Information analysis; Radio frequency; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Transport protocols; Virtual environment; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2007. ICC '07. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Glasgow

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0353-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2007.270

Filename

4288941