Microsoft Research: Online Deathmatch with thousands players

[Just_Ben]

http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ID=15630

"A recent Microsoft research paper analyzed the possibility of dramatically increasing the possible number of players in an FPS death match. Using a methodology dubbed "Donnybrook," the researchers suggested a variety of techinques to squeeze the most out of the bandwidth available, potentially allowing for a thousand players to wage war on the same map. "

And extended article explaining the technology is available in German here:

http://golem.de/0709/54749.html

Their research paper can be found here:

https://research.microsoft.com/~lorch/papers/iptps2007.pdf

Another english article here:

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2007/09/10/new-technology-promises-a-thousand-players-per-map-in-deathmatch

Well, I think this would get FPS players realy happy. Also intresting that the technologie is P2P based.