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Online Gaming Scalability

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Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games

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Online gaming scalability refers to all those techniques that aim at supporting online game sessions with a variable amount of participants. No matter the amount of players, the online game session must provide a fluid, compelling, and responsive game evolution.

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Today, almost all games have some online components that enable users interacting in an online game session. The high demand for such online services poses several scalability issues. The service must provide enough capacity to handle all requests and scale with the number of players they need to serve. In general, scalability indicates the capability of a system to maintain its performance under an increased load (Jogalekar and Woodside 2000). The demand for scalability is an issue common to all distributed systems and applications. Online games do have such need as well, which is complicated by the fact that at the same time, a high level of responsiveness must be...

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Ferretti, S., D’Angelo, G. (2018). Online Gaming Scalability. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_218-1

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