Experiences from Implementing a Mobile Multiplayer Real-Time Game for Wireless Networks with High Latency

Table 1

Response time including transmission intervals for various wireless networks.

Protocol	UDP				TCP
Network	GPRS	EDGE	UMTS	WLAN	GPRS	EDGE	UMTS	WLAN
Min	0.545 s	0.510 s	0.288 s	0.088 s	1.578 s	0.823 s	0.576 s	0.110 s
Max	0.971 s	0.751 s	0.674 s	0.457 s	1.980 s	1.198 s	1.195 s	0.485 s
Average	0.779 s	0.614 s	0.458 s	0.215 s	1.840 s	1.036 s	0.933 s	0.282 s