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Adaptive Packet Transmission Interval for Massively Multiplayer Online First-Person Shooter Games

  • Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information
  • Abbr : JKSCI
  • 2023, 28(2), pp.39-46
  • DOI : 10.9708/jksci.2023.28.02.039
  • Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
  • Research Area : Engineering > Computer Science
  • Received : January 2, 2023
  • Accepted : February 10, 2023
  • Published : February 28, 2023

Seungmuk Oh 1 Yoonsik Shim 1

1배재대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

We present an efficient packet transmission strategy for massively multiplayer online first-person shooter (MMOFPS) games using movement-adaptive packet transmission interval. The player motion in FPS games shows a wide spectrum of movement variability both in speed and orientation, where there is room for reducing the number of packets to be transmitted to the server depending on the predictability of the character's movement. In this work, the degree of variability (nonlinearity) of the player movements is measured at every packet transmission to calculate the next transmission time, which implements the adaptive transmission frequency according to the amount of movement change. Server-side prediction with a few auxiliary heuristics is performed in concert with the incoming packets to ensure reliability for synchronizing the connected clients. The comparison of our method with the previous fixed-interval transmission scheme is presented by demonstrating them using a test game environment.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.