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Ahmed, D.T., Shirmohammadi, S. (2008). Networking for Massively Multiuser Online Gaming. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_55

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