Identifying MMORPG Bots: A Traffic Analysis Approach

• Published in: EURASIP journal on advances in signal processing Vol. 2009; no. 1
• Main Authors: Chen, Kuan-Ta, Jiang, Jhih-Wei, Huang, Polly, Chu, Hao-Hua, Lei, Chin-Laung, Chen, Wen-Chin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.01.2009; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Accuracy; Computer engineering; Computer science; Engineering; Games; Methods; Quantum Information Technology; Research Article; Signal Processing Applications in Network Intrusion Detection Systems; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Spintronics; Playing Game; Release Time; Traffic Analysis; Multiple Time Scale; Publisher Note

Massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) have become extremely popular among network gamers. Despite their success, one of MMORPG's greatest challenges is the increasing use of game bots, that is, autoplaying game clients. The use of game bots is considered unsportsmanlike and...