1. www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Institute of Computer Science Chair of Communication Networks Prof. Dr.-Ing. P. Tran-Gia Modeling User Activity and Network Demands in Online Gaming

2. edit slide master to edit author name 2 edit slide master to edit title Advanced Scenario: Gaming Cloud VM  Media Center: Gaming (and related activities)  Relationship between video game streaming, live game streaming, multiplayer gaming  Placement  Consider type of game/streaming  Satisfy all participants  Meet the game requirements: real- time, HD resolution  Methodology  Performance Analysis  Metrics

3. edit slide master to edit author name 3 edit slide master to edit title Description of Work (1)  Task 1: Literature study  Existing models of online gaming  Relevance for thesis  Task 2: Investigate simulation requirements  Identify required user activity/network demand models for simulation –Online time of users –Location of users –Team membership/game participation (required server collocation) –Generated network traffic –Game server capacity  Select which data to crawl/measure  Check data availability (i.e., perform manual test crawl/measurement)  Task 3: Crawling/Measurement Analysis  Define requirements for crawling/measurement framework  Decide on crawling/measurement implementation (speed)  Decide on data storage (volume, analysis)

4. edit slide master to edit author name 4 edit slide master to edit title Description of Work (2)  Task 4: Crawling/Measurement  Implement crawling/measurement framework  Set up required components (server, storage, etc.)  Crawl/measure data  Task 5: Data Analysis  Check consistency of data  Compute basic statistics  Task 6: Modeling of User Activity/Network Demands  Develop models  Implement models and integrate them into simulation