Supervision : Pierre SENS
Co-supervision : MONNET Sébastien

Exploiting player behavior in distributed architectures for online games

Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are a very popular class of distributed systems with more than 20 millions of active users worldwide. MMOG have strong applicative requirements in terms of data consistency, persistence, responsiveness and scalability. Shaped by the behavior of the players in-game, MMOG workloads are data-intensive and hardly predictable. Despite extensive research in the area, none of the currently existing architectures is able to fully satisfy all the requirements in presence of such complex workloads.

Phd defence : 10/25/2012

Jury members :

Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Directrice de Recherche, INRIA Rennes [rapporteur]
Pascal Felber, Professeur, Université de Neuchâtel [rapporteur]
Anne Doucet, Professeur, LIP6
Ant Rowstron, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Ernst Biersack, Professeur, Eurecom Sophia-Antipolis
Sébastien Monnet, Maître de Conferences, LIP6
Pierre Sens, Professeur, LIP6

2009-2012 Publications

• 2012
  • S. Legtchenko : “Exploiting player behavior in distributed architectures for online games”, thesis, phd defence 10/25/2012, supervision Sens, Pierre, co-supervision : Monnet, Sébastien (2012)
  • S. Legtchenko, S. Monnet, P. Sens, G. Muller : “RelaxDHT : A Churn Resilient for Peer-to-Peer Distributed Hash-Tables”, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, vol. 7 (2), pp. 28, (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)) (2012)
• 2011
  • S. Legtchenko, S. Monnet, P. Sens : “DONUT: Building Shortcuts in Large-Scale Decentralized Systems with Heterogeneous Peer Distributions”, 30^th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2011), Madrid, Spain, pp. 91-100, (IEEE) (2011)
  • S. Legtchenko, S. Monnet, P. Sens : “DONUT: Building Shortcuts in Large-Scale Decentralized Systems with Heterogeneous Peer Distributions”, 20 pages (2011)
• 2010
  • S. Legtchenko, S. Monnet, G. Thomas : “Blue banana: resilience to avatar mobility in distributed MMOGs”, The 40^th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2010), Chicago, United States, pp. 171-180, (IEEE) (2010)
• 2009
  • S. Legtchenko, S. Monnet, P. Sens, G. Muller : “Churn-Resilient Replication Strategy for Peer-to-Peer Distributed Hash-Tables”, The 11^th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS~2009), vol. 5873, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lyon, France, pp. 485-499, (Springer) (2009)
  • S. Legtchenko : “Stratégie de réplication résistante au churn pour les tables de hachage distribuées en pair-à-pair”, 7^e Conférence Française en Systèmes d'Exploitation CFSE (CFSE~2009), Toulouse, France (2009)
  • S. Legtchenko, S. Monnet, G. Thomas : “Blue Banana: resilience to avatar mobility in distributed MMOGs”, 22 pages (2009)
  • S. Legtchenko, S. Monnet, P. Sens, G. Muller : “Churn-resilient replication strategy for peer-to-peer distributed hash-tables”, 21 pages (2009)