A performance study on multi-server DVE systems

Information Sciences

Volumn 154, Issue 1-2 SPEC., 2003, Pages 85-93

  Ng, Beatrice ^a   Li, Frederick W B ^a   Lau, Rynson W H ^a   Si, Antonio ^b   Siu, Angus ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed virtual environments; Multi server systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT (DVE);

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038683255     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(03)00036-7     Document Type: Article

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