Replacing cellular with WiFi direct communication for a highly interactive, high bandwidth multiplayer game
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Ortiz, Pablo (Pablo Jose)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Li-Shiuan Peh.
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The objective of this work is to explore the benefits of replacing cellular with Wi-Fi Direct communication in mobile applications. Cellular connections consume significant power on mobile devices and are too slow for many highly interactive mobile applications. Wi-Fi Direct, the recently released wireless standard, promises to provide the speed, power efficiency, and security of Wi-Fi to devices communicating within a short range. Using Wi-Fi performance as a baseline, the performance of a proof of concept system, Super Tux Kart Direct, is evaluated when communication is enabled by either LTE or Wi-Fi Direct. At the time of writing and to the best of the author's knowledge, Super Tux Kart Direct is the first, real-time, multiplayer kart racing game playable via Wi-Fi Direct.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2013. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-63).
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2013Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencePublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.