[Darkphibre]

Along these lines is the venerable TRIBES Engine Networking Model whitepaper. It was so good, it was shipped as part of the XDK for a decade. I believe Bungie even leaned on it quite a bit when creating their networking stack. https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/tribes-networking-model.pdf

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft Game Studios, but this comment reflects my own opinions.