Networking and Online Games

Grenville Armitage Editor and contributing author GrenvilleArmitage is Director of the Centre for Advanced InternetArchitectures (CAIA) and Associate Professor of TelecommunicationsEngineering at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne,Australia. He received his Bachelor and PhD degrees in ElectronicEngineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1988 and1994 respectively. He was a Senior Scientist in the InternetworkingResearch Group at Bellcore in New Jersey, USA (1994 to 1997) beforemoving to the High Speed Networks Research department at Bell LabsResearch (Lucent Technologies, NJ, USA). During the 1990s he wasinvolved in various Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) workinggroups relating to IP Quality of Service (QoS). While looking forapplications that might truly require IP QoS he became interestedin multiplayer networked games after moving to Bell Labs ResearchSilicon Valley (Palo Alto, CA) in late 1999. Having lived in NewJersey and California he is now back in Australia - enjoyingclose proximity to family, and teaching students that datanetworking research should be fascinating, disruptive and fun. Hisparents deserve a lot of credit for helping his love of technologybecome a rather enjoyable career. Mark Claypool Contributing author Mark Claypool is anAssociate Professor in Computer Science at Worcester PolytechnicInstitute in Massachusetts, USA. He is also the Director of theInteractive Media and Game Development major at WPI, a 4-yeardegree in the principles of interactive applications andcomputer-based game development. Dr. Claypool earned M.S. and Ph.D.degrees in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in1993 and 1997, respectively. His primary research interests includemultimedia networking, congestion control, and network games. Heand his wife have 2 kids, too many cats and dogs, and a bunch ofcomputers and game consoles. He is into First Person Shooter gamesand Real-Time Strategy games on PCs, Beat-'em Up games onconsoles, and Sports games on hand-helds. Philip Branch Contributing author Philip Branch is SeniorLecturer in Telecommunications Engineering within the Faculty ofInformation and Communication Technologies at Swinburne Universityof Technology. Before joining Swinburne he was a DevelopmentManager with Ericsson AsiaPacific Laboratories and before that, aResearch Fellow at Monash University where he conducted researchinto multimedia over access networks. He was awarded his PhD fromMonash University in 2000. He enjoys bushwalking with his youngfamily and playing very old computer games.