Peer-to-peer architecture for real-time strategy MMOGs with intelligent cheater detection

Marco  Picone; Stefano  Sebastio; Stefano  Cagnoni; Michele  Amoretti

DIstributed SImulation & Online gaming Workshop

Research Article

Peer-to-peer architecture for real-time strategy MMOGs with intelligent cheater detection

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8700,
    author={Marco  Picone and Stefano  Sebastio and Stefano  Cagnoni and Michele  Amoretti},
    title={Peer-to-peer architecture for real-time strategy MMOGs with intelligent cheater detection},
    proceedings={DIstributed SImulation \& Online gaming Workshop},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={DISIO},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={peer-to-peer MMOGs cheating detection neural networks},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8700}
}

Marco Picone
Stefano Sebastio
Stefano Cagnoni
Michele Amoretti
Year: 2010
Peer-to-peer architecture for real-time strategy MMOGs with intelligent cheater detection
DISIO
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8700

Marco Picone¹^,*, Stefano Sebastio¹^,*, Stefano Cagnoni¹^,*, Michele Amoretti¹^,*

1: Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Parma, Via Usberti 181/a, 43124 Parma, Italy.

*Contact email: picone@ce.unipr.it, sebastio@ce.unipr.it, amoretti@ce.unipr.it, cagnoni@ce.unipr.it

Abstract

Massively multi-player online games (MMOGs) are having increasing success, because they allow players to explore huge virtual worlds and to interact in many different ways, either cooperating or competing. To implement MMOGs that support several million users, a decentralized communication infrastructure is much better than a centralized one. Unfortunately, decentralization introduces many security problems, allowing dishonest players to apply cheating strategies, if appropriate countermeasures are not implemented. In this paper we illustrate our framework for real-time strategy MMOGs, called PATROL, focusing on the AI-based strategies it adopts to detect cheating attempts.

Keywords: peer-to-peer MMOGs cheating detection neural networks

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8700