: Introduction

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• Introduction
• Background and Motivation
  • Contemporary Game Design
  • Scaling Properties of Client-Server Architectures
    • Game Parameters
    • Empirical Study
  • Possible Approaches for Achieving Scalability
    • Broadcast Architectures
    • Cell-based Architectures
  
  
• Architecture Overview
  • A Distributed Game Model
    • State Partitioning
    • Execution Partitioning
    • An Example
    • Discussion
  • Architecture Components
    • Object Location:
    • Replica Management:
    • Object Placement:
  
  
• Locating Distributed Objects
  • Mercury Overview
  • Colyseus Extensions to Mercury
    • Soft-state Triggers
    • Predictive Publications and Subscriptions
  
  
• Replica Management
  • Replica Creation
  • Replica Deletion
  • Additional Features
    • Transparent Pointer Resolution
    • Proactive Replication
  
  
• Object Placement
  • Overview
  • Cost Model
    • Inferring Object Interests
    • Load Estimation
  • Clustering
  • Load Shedding
  • Discussion
  
  
• Evaluation
  • Implementation
  • Experimental Setup
    • Emulated Environments
    • Workloads
  • Colyseus Communication Costs
    • Scaling Comparison
    • Communication Cost Breakdown
    • Traffic Characteristics
  • Object Store Consistency
    • Discovery Latency
    • Replica Set Inconsistency
  • Object Placement
  
  
• Summary and Conclusions

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Ashwin Bharambe