Central Concerns and Questions

Multiplayer gaming on desktop computers and home console systems is already a multi-billion dollar industry. The increase in the computational capability of PDAs and cellphones, coupled with the rollout of fast 3G networks suggests that mobile gaming is going to become a huge market in the next few years.

Emerging Ideas and Initiatives

In our research, we focus on designing, building, and testing algorithms and full systems for supporting mobile multiplayer games. This includes looking at energy efficient mechanisms for playing games as well as developing middleware and infrastructure for supporting large distributed mobile multiplayer games.

Selected Publications

[1] R. K. Balan, M. Ebling, P. Castro, A. Misra. Matrix: Adaptive Middleware for Distributed Multiplayer Games. Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 6th International Middleware Conference (Middleware) (Short Paper), Grenoble, France, Nov 2005, pg. 392-402.

Collaborations and Industry Linkages

1. School of Computing, National University of Singapore
2. School of Electrical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University