Games & Interactive Systems

UDP Gateway & Stateful Routing

Gateway intercepts UDP → pins each stream to its owning server

Zone 01

Client

💻

Game Client

UDP source
variable port

UDP
datagram

Zone 02

Edge Layer

🔀

UDP Edge Gateway
/ Proxy

Session table
5-tuple → server pin

pinned
stream

Zone 03

Stateful
Game Servers

🎮

Game Server A

Match #1 · active
← pinned stream

🎮

Game Server B

Match #2 · idle
no session

🎮

Game Server C

Match #3 · idle
no session

UDP datagram

pinned UDP stream

idle / no session