I searched the entier HN article and everyone missed a big paper, the tribe networking model: https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/tribes-networking-model.pdf https

I searched the entier HN article and everyone missed a big paper, the tribe networking model: https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/tribes-networking-model.pdf https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/tribes-networking-model.pdf This is one of the most influential paper for multiplayer games. ( probably #1 ). Tribe was the first game to have client side prediction and rollback, this is what most games use nowdays.