Towards Suitable Communication Protocols For Mobile Multiplayer Games on Heterogeneous Mobile Devices

摘要

Currently research into communication protocols withudregards to multiplayer gaming requirements has beenudsparse. There are a number of surveys on multicastingudin mobile device communication which addressesudlatency reduction, density and traffic. Moreover, theseudstudies have not addressed multiplayer gaming issues.udRecent research in the area of mobile devices hasudfocused in mobile communication and distributionudsystems for homogeneous devices but they have notudfully addressed communication between heterogeneousuddevices. This work investigates suitableudcommunication protocols for mobile multiplayerudgames on heterogeneous mobile devices. In particularudissues such as scalability, reliability, bandwidth anduddata transportation time of communication systems andudcontent distribution of mobile heterogeneous devicesudwill be addressed. This paper proposes a hybridudprotocol solution that addresses communication issuesudrelated to heterogeneous mobile devices as existingudMANET protocols seem to lack the capability ofudsolving these issues collectively.