Distributed virtual environments-an active future?

Abstract

This paper asks whether Active Networks might offer potential solutions to scalability issues for large scale Distributed Virtual Environments. The paper considers current directions in the architecture of DVE systems and recent work in Active Network research and suggests potentially beneficial synergies between the two fields. This project is the proposed PhD research of the first author (TB).

Critical causal order of events in distributed virtual environments

“…With the rapid development of Internet technologies and the fast-growing number of users on the Internet, more and more distributed virtual environments (DVEs) are implemented on the Internet [Balikhina et al 2002;Singhal and Zyda 1999]. A DVE is a distributed system that allows multiple geographically distributed users to interact simultaneously in a computer-generated shared virtual world.…”

A Novel Routing Algorithm for Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems

“…The Publish/Subscribe system is a kind of system that all participants in the distributed system can interact in the form of Publish/Subscribe [1]. In the Publish/Subscribe system, information produced during the interaction between producers and consumers is called the "events" [2].…”