Coordination-Free Designs for Mobile Gaming

How can you maintain consistency across a large number of devices that are sporadically connected?

In this talk, we will look at on-going work being performed by the SyncFree research group, a FP7 EU-funded research project on large-scale, synchronization-free computation. We will look at several use cases provided by Rovio Entertainment, makers of Angry Birds, and propose several possible designs to solve consistency problems across mobile devices: an environment where clients can go offline and be partitioned from the network for a indefinite amount of time.

Talk objectives:

- The objectives of this talk are to discuss alternative designs for offline gaming where consistency and deterministic execution is paramount.

Target audience:

- People interested in distributed computation.