Adaptive Client to Mirrored-Server Assignment for Massively Multiplayer Online Games (2008)
The Mirrored Server (MS) architecture for network games uses multiple mirrored servers across multiple locations to alleviate the bandwidth bottleneck and to reduce the client-to-server delay time....
Adaptive Client to Mirrored-Server Assignment for Massively Multiplayer Online Games (2008)
The Mirrored Server (MS) architecture for network games uses multiple mirrored servers across multiple locations to alleviate the bandwidth bottleneck and to reduce the client-to-server delay time....
Secure referee selection for fair and responsive peer to peer gaming (2008)
Webb, Steven, Soh, Sieteng, Trahan, J.L.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures for Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) provide better scalability than Client/Server (C/S); however, they increase the possibility of cheating. Recently...
A survey on network game cheats and P2P solutions (2008)
The increasing popularity of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) - games involving thousands of players participating simultaneously in a single virtual world - has highlighted the scalability...
RACS: A Referee Anti-Cheat Scheme for P2P Gaming (2007)
Webb, Steven, Soh, Sieteng, Lau, William
Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures provide better scalability than Client/Server (C/S) for Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG); however, they increase the possibility of cheating. Existing P2P...
Round length optimisation for P2P network gaming (2007)
The Referee Anti-Cheat Scheme (RACS) increases the scalability of Client/Server (C/S) games by allowing clients to exchange updates directly. Further, RACS maintains the security of C/S as the...
Enhanced Mirrored Servers for Network Games (2007)
Webb, Steven, Soh, Sieteng, Lau, William
The Mirrored Server (MS) architecture uses multiple mirrored servers across multiple locations to alleviate the bandwidth bottleneck in the Client/Server (C/S) architecture. Each mirror receives and...
Cheating in networked computer games € A review (2007)
The increasing popularity of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) " games involving thousands of players participating simultaneously in a single virtual world - has highlighted the scalability...
RACS: A Referee Anti-Cheat Scheme for P2P Gaming (2007)
Webb, Steven, Soh, Sieteng, Lau, William
Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures provide better scalability than Client/Server (C/S) for Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG); however, they increase the possibility of cheating. Existing P2P...
Round length optimisation for P2P network gaming (2007)
The Referee Anti-Cheat Scheme (RACS) increases the scalability of Client/Server (C/S) games by allowing clients to exchange updates directly. Further, RACS maintains the security of C/S as the...
Cheating in networked computer games: a review (2007)
The increasing popularity of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) - games involving thousands of players participating simultaneously in a single virtual world - has highlighted the scalability...
Enhanced mirrored servers for network games (2007)
Webb, Steven, Soh, Sieteng, Lau, William
The Mirrored Server (MS) architecture uses multiple mirrored servers across multiple locations to alleviate the bandwidth bottleneck in the Client/Server (C/S) architecture. Each mirror receives and...
NGS: An application layer network game simulator (2006)
Webb, Steven, Lau, William, Soh, Sieteng
In the last five years the popularity of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) has exploded. Unfortunately, the demand has far outweighed the resources developers can provide. Many MMOGs are...
NGS: An application layer network game simulator (2006)
Webb, Steven, Lau, William, Soh, Sieteng
In the last five years the popularity of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) has exploded. Unfortunately, the demand has far outweighed the resources developers can provide. Many MMOGs are...
NGS: An application layer network game simulator (2006)
Webb, Steven, Lau, William, Soh, Sieteng
In the last five years the popularity of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) has exploded. Unfortunately, the demand has far outweighed the resources developers can provide. Many MMOGs are...
NGS: An application layer network game simulator (2006)
Webb, Steven, Lau, William, Soh, Sieteng
In the last five years the popularity of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) has exploded. Unfortunately, the demand has far outweighed the resources developers can provide. Many MMOGs are...
NGS: An application layer network game simulator (2006)
Webb, Steven, Lau, William, Soh, Sieteng
In the last five years the popularity of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) has exploded. Unfortunately, the demand has far outweighed the resources developers can provide. Many MMOGs are...
Shahid Javed Burki, Guillermo E. Perry, Florence Eid, Maria E. Freire, Victor Vergara, Steven Webb
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Grossing up Family Expenditure Survey data for use in international accounts
James Banks, Sarah Tanner, Steven Webb
In this paper we show how estimates of aggregate spending in the UK would be affected by using grossing weights that take account of the known dimensions of non-representativeness of the Family...
The distribution of UK household expenditure, 1979-92
The rapid growth in income inequality in the UK over the 1980s has excited a good deal of interest and concern. A primary reason for this concern has been the widely- drawn conclusion that the living...
A new model for market-based regulation of subnational borrowing - the Mexican approach
Giugale, Marcelo, Korobow, Adam, Webb, Steven
Faced with weak sub-national finances that pose a risk to macroeconomic stability, Mexico's federal government in April 2000 established an innovative incentive framework to bring fiscal discipline...
Why Are There So Many Long Term Sick in Britain?
This paper examines the upward trend of numbers in receipt of Invalidity Benefit (the major contributory benefit for the long-term sick) in Britain since 1971. Possible explanations include the...
The dynamics of incomes and occupational pensions after retirement
Paul Johnson, Gary Stears, Steven Webb
This paper uses two waves of the UK Retirement Survey to look at how incomes change during retirement. We concentrate on men aged 65-69 and women aged 60-69 in 1988-89 and look at how their incomes...
For richer, for poorer: the changing distribution of income in the United Kingdom, 1961-91
This article describes the changing patterns in income inequality and real living standards over the last 30 years. Whilst it is well documented that inequality has been rising since 1979,2 there is...
In recent years there has been a dramatic growth both in the number of homes being repossessed and in the number of families with substantial mortgage arrears. In 1980 around 3,500 homes were...
A practical framework for the analysis of social security reform
Social security systems in developed countries are typically the largest single item of public expenditure, and affect virtually every member of the population at some point, whether through...
Until 1988 the Government produced a series of statistics, known as 'Low Income Families' (LIF), every two years. The figures showed the numbers of people receiving supplementary benefit (SB) and the...
The difficulties encountered in forecasting social security expenditure (significantly underpredicted for much of the 1980s) have long been a source of concern-not least to officials in the DSS....
Counting people with low incomes: the impact of recent changes in official statistics
'...[the public is not yet convinced that]... changes made in the presentation of the data are based on bona fide methodological rather than political grounds'. So wrote the all-party House of...
Reforming National Insurance contributions: a progress report
The most dramatic change in the 1989 Budget was a major reform of the structure of employee's National Insurance contributions (NICs). This was the second occasion on which Mr Lawson had tackled this...
Social Security Policy in a Changing Labour Market.
Conditions in the UK labour market of the 1990s are markedly different from those which prevailed in the post-war period when the modern welfare state was created. The main differences include a...