FILA, a Holistic Approach to Massive Online Gaming: Algorithm Comparison and Performance Analysis

The popularity of multiplayer online games has nowadays reached millions across the globe capturing the attention of both researchers and practitioners. Unfortunately, this kind of applications has still to deal with the limitations imposed by some unresolved issues. Interactivity, consistency, fairness, and scalability are the major requirements that need to be efficiently addressed in order to provide an appealing product to a huge number of potential customers all over the world. Answering to this demand, we describe a holistic approach able to exploit the semantics of the game to satisfy the aforementioned requirements. We provide extensive and comparative results that demonstrate how our scheme efficiently copes with an elevated game traffic level.