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Design and Evaluation of a MMO Game Server

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Many large-scale online genre games such as Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) are attracting attention in the game market. In a game server connected to hundreds or thousands of users, a large number of packets come and go between the server and the client in real time. For the server to endure these loads, IOCP (Input/Output Completion Port) and multi-thread are necessary. This paper implements a simple MMO Game Server using IOCP and evaluates its performance. Also, IOCP packet design and processing method are presented. The Simple MMO Game Server implemented in this paper also supports multi-thread synchronization and dead reckoning.

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This work was supported by Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion(IITP) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIP) (No. 2016-0-00204, Development of mobile GPU hardware for photo-realistic real time virtual reality).

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    Youngsik Kim & Ki-Nam Kim

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Kim, Y., Kim, KN. (2019). Design and Evaluation of a MMO Game Server. In: Lee, R. (eds) Computational Science/Intelligence & Applied Informatics. CSII 2018. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 787. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96806-3_6

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