A Survey on Multiplayer Games over VANETs Environment

Salah Noori  Mjeat , Foad S. Mubarek

Abstract: the development of wireless technologies and the massive acceptance of network-based multiplayer games, these games have taken great interest in recent years, especially the games based on the Vehicular Ad hoc networks (VANET), where a group of people exploit wireless technologies equipped with vehicles and play games, whether between them or with another group within the same transmission range.Due to the fact that vehicles travel at various speeds and across multiple routes, a wireless connection duration is hard to maintain for long periods of time according to the topology of VANET. This might cause packets loss during the interaction between players. This study focusing on the state of the art multiplayer games for VANETS environment applications. As the researchers required previous studies to create a novel contribution in the academic branch this study presents a survey in the multiplayer games for them.

Key Words— vehicles travel; VANETS; Ad hoc networks.

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