Everything you always wanted to know about playing a FPS game on a car

Abstract

This paper studies the feasibility of playing a First Person Shooter interactive online game while traveling as a passenger on a car in an urban scenario where wireless connectivity is available through WiFi Access Points (APs). Knowing in advance the positions of APs, we propose a mechanism that is capable of predicting future connectivity times while moving, so that a player may choose (or not) to begin a game round. With such estimation of connectivity time, a player can obtain a feeling regarding which parts of a game s/he could (not) accomplish and hence be put in the position of deciding for the best. We validated our approach through simulations utilizing a large set of real vehicular movement traces collected in Pisa, Italy.