Periodic load balancing heuristics in massively multiplayer online games
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
8-7-2018
Abstract
In massively multiplayer online games, computational load is often shared among and transferred between the servers that host the game world. It is important to keep this load balanced among those resources such that no one server becomes overloaded and leads to a subpar game experience or outright game failure. The system must balance is load subject to constraints as player satisfaction and maximum server computational capacity. We propose a novel periodic approach to this problem of load balancing along with a collection of heuristics to achieve balance in the system, and compare its performance against existing work in literature, finding that these new heuristics provide more system balance than those existing methods.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Recommended Citation
Farlow, S., & Trahan, J. (2018). Periodic load balancing heuristics in massively multiplayer online games. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series https://doi.org/10.1145/3235765.3235769
