I'm submitting this because it's interesting content, but unfortunately it's a bit poorly organized by Activision.

This is the second whitepaper, and the most recent in a series [0] of four whitepapers on matchmaking. The first [1] paper was about the role of ping in matchmaking.

[0] https://research.activision.com/publications/2024/07/Call-of... [blog]

[1] https://research.activision.com/content/dam/atvi/activision/... [pdf]