naa a22 4500 510797504 CHVBK 20180411083342.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11277-013-1237-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11277-013-1237-2 An Efficient Gaming User Oriented Load Balancing Scheme for MMORPGs [Elektronische Daten] [Hye-Young Kim, Hwa-Jin Park] Massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) follows a client-server model that has the numerous gaming users with many interactions at the same virtual world, massive loading that result in delays, resource shortages, and other such problems occur. Also, faced with high resource demand variability and with misfit resource renting policies, the current practices is to overprovision for each game tens of owned data. Existing load balancing schemes for distributed virtual environments and multiplayer games try to balance the workload among servers by transferring some workload of an overloaded server to other servers. While load balancing algorithms can minimize the average response time of the system, they may also result in frequent client migrations, which may damage the interactivity of an online games. To solve this, many developers devote research to load-balancing servers, yet due to steady and dynamic map divisions, such research is unreliable. Many developers propose algorithms to distribute the load on the server nodes, but the load is usually defined as the number of players on each server, what is not an ideal results. So, we propose a gaming user-oriented load balancing scheme for the load balancing of MMORPGs servers in this paper. This scheme shows effectiveness at dealing with hot-spots and other gatherings of gaming users at specific servers compared to previous methods. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 MMORPGs nationallicence Load balancing nationallicence User oriented nationallicence Seamless nationallicence Gaming user nationallicence Kim Hye-Young School of Game/Game Software, Hongik University, Building B, Room #211, 2639 Sejong-ro, 339-701, Jochiwon-eup, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea aut Park Hwa-Jin Department of Multimedia Science, Sookmyung Women's University, Hyochangwongil 52, Yongsan-gu, 140-742, Seoul, Republic of Korea aut Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 73/2(2013-11-01), 289-297 0929-6212 73:2<289 2013 73 11277 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1237-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1237-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kim Hye-Young School of Game/Game Software, Hongik University, Building B, Room #211, 2639 Sejong-ro, 339-701, Jochiwon-eup, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Park Hwa-Jin Department of Multimedia Science, Sookmyung Women's University, Hyochangwongil 52, Yongsan-gu, 140-742, Seoul, Republic of Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 73/2(2013-11-01), 289-297 0929-6212 73:2<289 2013 73 11277 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer