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AR Game Traffic Analysis: A Case of Pokemon Go in Flash Crowd Event

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Hsin-Yuan Chen,

Polly HuangAuthors Info & Claims

AINTEC '23: Proceedings of the 18th Asian Internet Engineering Conference

Pages 19 - 27

https://doi.org/10.1145/3630590.3630593

Published: 12 December 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Latency is a major issue towards practical use of augmented reality (AR) in mobile apps such as navigation and gaming. A string of work has appeared recently, proposing to offload a part of the AR-related processing pipeline to the edge [8]. One pitfall in these studies is the (simplified) assumption about the traffic demand and its implication to the network delay. As a reality check and to gather insights to deliver and render AR content in real time, we seek in this work a better understanding of how a popular AR game, Pokémon Go, delivers its data in situ.

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Index Terms

AR Game Traffic Analysis: A Case of Pokemon Go in Flash Crowd Event
1. Networks
  1. Network performance evaluation
    1. Network performance analysis

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AINTEC '23: Proceedings of the 18th Asian Internet Engineering Conference

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December 12 - 14, 2023

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Yang YHanisch SMa MRoos SStrufe TNguyen G(2024)First Steps Towards Game and Activity Inference on Encrypted VR Datastreams2024 IEEE 25th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)10.1109/WoWMoM60985.2024.00030(105-110)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2024
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