Mercury: A Scalable Publish-Subscribe System for Internet Games

@inproceedings{2002-Bharambe-netgames,
    author = "Bharambe, Ashwin and Rao, Sanjay and Seshan, Srinivasan",
    title = "Mercury: A Scalable Publish-Subscribe System for Internet Games",
    year = "2002",
    isbn = "1581134932",
    publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
    address = "New York, NY, USA",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566500.566501",
    doi = "10.1145/566500.566501",
    abstract = "Today's network games suffer from scalability and performance limitations caused by centralized client-server architectures and/or broadcast communication. In this paper, we argue that the communication between components of a game can be modeled as a publish-subscribe system. We present the design of MERCURY, a completely distributed publish-subscribe system, which supports a content-based publish-subscribe model of communication and performs distributed matching using a novel content-based routing protocol. We also present preliminary simulation results identifying key design decisions affecting the scalability and network efficiency of the system.",
    booktitle = "Workshop on Network and System Support for Games",
    pages = "3–9",
    numpages = "7",
    location = "Braunschweig, Germany",
    month = "April",
    category = "[Overlay, P2P, Games]",
    series = "NetGames '02"
}