Masters Theses Advised

Samin Shahriar Tokey. Improving Player Experience and Fairness Using Adaptive Time-Delay on First-Person Shooters, M.S. Thesis, Interactive Media and Game Development, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Fall 2024. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/tokey-lag-24/

Bharat Monavarti and Surya Srinivasan. Compensating for Network Latency in Cloud-based Game Streaming using Control Assistance in a Top-down Game, M.S. Thesis, Interactive Media and Game Development, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2024. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/control-assist-24/

Aritra Kundu. The Effects of Latency and Game Device on Moving Target Selection, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Summer 2021. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Ragnhild Eg) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/target-devices/

Robert Salay. A Comparison of Automatic versus Manual World Adjustment for Network Game Latency Compensation, M.S. Thesis, Interactive Media and Game Development, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Summer 2020. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/world-alteration/

Varun Bhat. Towards Automatically Generating Playable Summaries, M.S. Thesis, Interactive Media and Game Development, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Summer 2020. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Gillian Smith) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/mario/

Thanh Long X. Vu. 360 Gunner - A 2D Platformer to Evaluate Network Latency Compensation, M.S. Project, Interactive Media and Game Development, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Fall 2019. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/360-gunner/

Jiawei Sun. Drizzle: Design and Implementation of a Lightweight Cloud Game Engine with Latency Compensation, M.S. Thesis, Interactive Media and Game Development, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Fall 2017. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/drizzle/

Amit Srivastava. Performance Evaluation of QUIC Protocol under Network Congestion, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2017. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/quic/

Yinging Chen, Tianhe Wang, Xin Wu and Yuhuang Xie. A Serious Game - Defying Disaster: Earthquake, M.S. Project, Interactive Media and Game Development, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Fall 2014. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Dean O'Donnell) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/disaster/

Meng Luo. Uniquitous: Implementation and Evaluation of a Cloud-based Game System in Unity3d, M.S. Thesis, Interactive Media and Game Development, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Fall 2014. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/uniquitous/

Brett Levasseur. Impact of Acknowledgments on Application Performance in 4G LTE Networks, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2014. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/4g-lte/

Sahel Mastoureshgh. Measurement and Method for Receiver Buffer Sizing in Video Streaming, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2012. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/bwidth-buffer/

Murad Kaplan. Predicting Performance for Reading News Online from within a Web Browser Sandbox, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Winter 2012. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/hmn-web/

Rabin Karki. Fresh Analysis of Streaming Media Stored on the Web, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Winter 2011. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/fresh-crawl/

Thangam Vedagiri Seenivasan. CStream: Neighborhood Bandwidth Aggregation For Better Video Streaming, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2010. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/cstream/

Rui Lu. Media Scaling for Power Optimization on Wireless Video Sensors, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Summer 2007. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/sensor-power/

Kevin Menard. Evaluating User Feedback Systems, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2006. (Advisors Mark Claypool and David Brown) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/mandorvol/

Paolo Piselli. Relating Cognitive Models of Computer Games to User Evaluations of Entertainment, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2006. (Advisors Mark Claypool and James Doyle) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/game-fun/

James Nichols. Measurement of Windows Streaming Media, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2004. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/wsm/

Abhishek Kumar. Traffic Sensitive Active Queue Management, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Fall 2003. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/tsq/

Hariharan Kannan. TCP-Carson: A Loss-event Based Adaptive AIMD Protocol for Long-lived Flows, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2002. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/tcp-carson/

Vishal Phirke. Traffic Sensitive Active Queue Management for Improved Quality of Service , M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2002. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/tsr/

Choong-Soo Lee.WHITE - Achieving Fair Bandwidth Allocation with Priority Dropping Based on Round Trip Time, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2002. (Advisors Mark Claypool and Robert Kinicki) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/white/

Badrinath Venkatachari. Better Admission Control and Disk Scheduling for Multimedia Applications, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2002. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/mm-disk/

Yubing Wang. An Adaptable Benchmark for MPFS Performance Testing, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2002. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/mpfs-benchmark/

Avanish Tripathi. Adaptive Content-Aware Scaling for Improved Video Streaming, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2001. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/media-scale/

Rahul Pradhan. Adaptive Multimedia Content Delivery for Scalable Web Servers, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2001. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/web-load/

Yali Zhu. Using Interleaving to Ameliorate the Effects of Packet Loss in a Video Stream, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Winter 2001. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/video-interleave/

Pravin Mane. WAIT - Selective Loss Recovery for Multimedia Multicast, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Summer 2000. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/wait/

Gangadharan Kannan. Selective Flooding for Improved Quality-of-Service Routing, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2000. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/hsf/

Jae Chung. Dynamic CBT - Router Queue Management for Improved Multimedia Performance on the Internet, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2000. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/dynamic-cbt/

Bhupesh Kothari. Performance Analysis of Dynamic Web Page Generation Technologies, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Summer 1999. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/cgi-perf/

Yanlin Liu. Video Redundancy - A Best-Effort Solution to Network Data Loss, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 1999. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/video-redundancy/

Anuja Gokhale. Improvements to Collaborative Filtering Algorithms, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 1999. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/cf-improve/

Jonathan Tanner. Java Jitters - The Effects of Java on Jitter in a Video Stream, M.S. Thesis, Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Spring 1999. (Advisor Mark Claypool) Online at: http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~claypool/ms/java-jitters/