Re: [GNUnet-developers] p2p 'massively multi-player games (MMGs)'

[donnar]

Okay, a little bit more research led me to the 'Croquet 
project' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project). 

Quote: 'Croquet is a powerful new open source software development environment 
for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online 
applications on multiple operating systems and devices. Derived from Squeak, 
it features a peer-based network architecture that supports communication, 
collaboration, resource sharing, and synchronous computation between multiple 
users on multiple devices.'

Source: http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/System_Overview

Anyway, thank you for your friendly response.

Yours,
Donnar

Am Sonntag, 11. März 2007 02:39 schrieben Sie:
> No worries, this list is certainly ok for this kind of discussion.
>
> I think the best person to answer your questions (possibly with some
> of his research papers and PhD thesis) is my colleague Chris
> GauthierDickey here at the University of Denver.  I've cc'ed him since
> I believe he is not subscribed to gnunet-developers.
>
> Christian
>
> On 3/10/07, donnar <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm sorry for this more or less 'offtopic' posting, but I couldn't find a
> > better place than to put my question on the GNUnet developers list...
> >
> > I'm currently evaluating the possibility of using p2p networks for the
> > use in
> > 'massively multi-player games (MMGs)'.
> >
> > The requirements are quite different compared to a filesharing
> > application, namely:
> >
> > *Performance (Latency)
> >
> > *Availability
> >
> > *Security (Account thefts)
> >
> > *Scalability (popular games have up to 180k players in one night)
> >
> > (Source: Department of Computer and Information Science, University of
> > Pennsylvania - http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004/Papers/03_2.PDF ).
> >
> > While there was some research work done round the globe (i.e. China:
> > Network Security Lab, RIIT Tsinghua University -
> > http://security.riit.tsinghua.edu.cn/Freegame/English%20Vesion/freegame.h
> >tml ,
> > Germany: TU Darmstadt -
> > http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/en/research/research-areas/peer-to-peer-ne
> >tworking/overview/p2p-network-games/ ),
> > it seems that nobody was able to solve the problems.
> >
> > May I can ask the GNUnet developers about their opinions and suggestions
> > how to reconcile Performance / Latency and Security at the same time ?
> >
> > To avoid misunderstandings: I'm neither working for a software company,
> > nor I'm involved in another p2p project. Anyway, I would like to point
> > out that network games are big business, especially in Asia.
> >
> > Again, sorry for this 'offtopic' posting,
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Donnar
> >
> >
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