Cheating is a key issue in online games. It is widely recognized that typical cheating prevention schemes introduce complications and overheads in the distributed game system, which may seriously jeopardize the online gaming experience. The paper review the main architectural solutions and prevention schemes to cope with cheats. Then, prevention schemes are described which allow to detect cheaters instead of preventing the cheats. It has been indeed recognized that, often, detecting the cheaters could represent a better solution. Some experimental results are presented that confirm the viability of the presented approaches.
Countermeasures for Time-Cheat Detection in Multiplayer Online Games / S. Ferretti. - STAMPA. - (2009), pp. 157-174.
Countermeasures for Time-Cheat Detection in Multiplayer Online Games
FERRETTI, STEFANO
2009
Abstract
Cheating is a key issue in online games. It is widely recognized that typical cheating prevention schemes introduce complications and overheads in the distributed game system, which may seriously jeopardize the online gaming experience. The paper review the main architectural solutions and prevention schemes to cope with cheats. Then, prevention schemes are described which allow to detect cheaters instead of preventing the cheats. It has been indeed recognized that, often, detecting the cheaters could represent a better solution. Some experimental results are presented that confirm the viability of the presented approaches.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
