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A mobile gaming platform for the IMS

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Amjad Akkawi,

Sibylle Schaller,

Oliver Wellnitz,

Lars WolfAuthors Info & Claims

NetGames '04: Proceedings of 3rd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games

Pages 77 - 84

https://doi.org/10.1145/1016540.1016542

Published: 30 August 2004 Publication History

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Mobile devices offer the opportunity to play games nearly everywhere. Moreover, networked games allow individual players to interact with other people and to participate in a larger gaming world, which also provides for new business opportunities. Hence, we currently see an increased interest from game developers, providers and players in mobile games. In this paper we propose a novel architecture and platform for games on the IMS. This allows games to utilize the features and capabilities that are inherent to the IMS. At the same time existing games can be flexibly adapted to this new type of network and have the possibility to reserve network resources for game data transmission, thus improving the experience of players.

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Reviewer: John W. Fendrich

A novel architecture and platform for games, particularly games on a computer network, is proposed in this paper. The novel architecture and platform uses the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), which has evolved from global system for mobile communications (GSM) core networks and the radio access technologies of 3GPP. The 3GPP Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) enables a platform with capabilities like presence, multimedia conferencing, messaging, and support for quality of service (QOS) for data traffic. The paper proposes games on the IMS. The claimed advantages for this implementation are complex service provisions, such as instant messaging, scoring services, and feature enhancement of games. Components, game provisioning, community service, and a game information service of a general game service-as well as motivation for games over 3GPPIMS, and an overview of 3GPPIMS architecture-are introduced. The details of the architecture for the integration of games over the IMS are then presented. This includes the gaming platform, which consists of a standard application programming interface (API) from the gaming platform to the games. The game application is included in the game platform discussion, although the game application is not part of the gaming platform; the game application usually consists of client/server technologies. The game focus, which is the central component of the game platform, maintains a session initiation protocol (SIP) signaling relation with each player in the game. It has access to a services and policies component, which is a database. The paper concludes with a sample implementation prototype, limited to a setup between game client and game server for GNU Arcade Volleyball and TetriNet. Online Computing Reviews Service

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NetGames '04: Proceedings of 3rd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games

August 2004

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ISBN:158113942X

DOI:10.1145/1016540

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Wu-chang Feng
OGI School of Engineering, Oregon Health and Science University

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