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Guest editorial: special issue on network and systems support for games

Authors: Maha Abdallah, Khaled Boussetta, Wei Tsang Ooi

Published in: Multimedia Systems | Issue 5/2014

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A recent market forecast has predicted that the global market for video games will rise to $82 billion in 2017 (http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/07/18/new-reports-forecasts-global-video-game-industry-will-reach-82-billion-by-2017/). The growth is driven by factors including advances in graphics hardware and proliferation of mobile devices. The ubiquity of network connections has also driven up the demand for online gaming, with the market forecasted to reach $35 billion by 2017 (http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/07/18/new-reports-forecasts-global-video-game-industry-will-reach-82-billion-by-2017/). This increasing number of game players desire better playing experiences, straining the underlying network and system architecture, and introduces new research questions that require synthesis of a variety of research areas. …

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Title: Guest editorial: special issue on network and systems support for games
Authors: Maha Abdallah
Khaled Boussetta
Wei Tsang Ooi
Publication date: 01-10-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Multimedia Systems / Issue 5/2014
Print ISSN: 0942-4962
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1882
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-014-0401-1

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