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NDNGame: A NDN-based Architecture for Online Games

Authors:
Diego Barros
Marcial Fernandez

Keywords: Future Internet; Online game architecture; Named Data Network (NDN)

Abstract:
The content-oriented network paradigm is an alternative approach for computer's networks, proposing a new communication architecture compatible with the dynamic nature of the current Internet. Among these models, we can mention Named Data Network (NDN). Its basic idea is to retrieve data through content names, instead of source and destination IP address. Using in-network caches, this approach allows to achieve good performance to distribute content in large-scale, improving the usage of the network. However, this model is not a consensus on end-to-end applications such as e-mail, VoIP, games and client-server application. The NDN protocol overhead reduces the performance for these applications. This work proposes a hybrid network architecture in online games, using NDN for content dissemination and point-to-point IP communication to deliver control messages. Our proposal demonstrates how NDN networks can be used to improve online game's distribution network maintaining the user experience.

Pages: 65 to 71

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: April 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4413

ISBN: 978-1-61208-398-8

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from April 19, 2015 to April 24, 2015