A packet-level traffic model of Starcraft

Alberto  Dainotti; Antonio  Pescape; Giorgio  Ventre

2nd International ICST Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems

Research Article

A packet-level traffic model of Starcraft

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    author={Alberto  Dainotti and Antonio  Pescape and Giorgio  Ventre},
    title={A packet-level traffic model of Starcraft},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={HOT-P2P},
    year={2005},
    month={10},
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    doi={10.1109/HOT-P2P.2005.4}
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Alberto Dainotti
Antonio Pescape
Giorgio Ventre
Year: 2005
A packet-level traffic model of Starcraft
HOT-P2P
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/HOT-P2P.2005.4

Alberto Dainotti¹^,*, Antonio Pescape¹^,*, Giorgio Ventre¹

1: University of Napoli "Federico II"

*Contact email: alberto@unina.it, pescape@unina.it

Abstract

Starcraft is a popular real time strategy game that uses a peer-to-peer network communication model. In this paper we analyze its traffic and we provide a statistical characterization at packet-level obtained by varying the number of players. We examine the time dynamics between individual packets within a game session as well as the packet sizes. Also, we provide analytical models approximating the empirical distributions found, we study properties of the tails and of the auto-correlation function, and we investigate the presence of self-similarity. The results obtained show how traffic generated by such game has different characteristics from the traffic prevailing on the Internet in past years.

Published: 2005-10-24
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HOT-P2P.2005.4