A global timestamp-based approach to enhanced data consistency and fairness in collaborative virtual environments

Multimedia Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 220-229

  Kim, Sung Jin ^a   Kuester, Falko ^a   Kim, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fairness; Global timestamp; Online game; Real time distributed systems; TMO

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; JITTER; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SEARCHING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

FAIRNESS; GLOBAL TIMES-TAMP; ONLINE GAMES; REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; TIME-TRIGGERED MESSAGE-TRIGGERED OBJECT (TMO) PROGRAMMING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 14844348524     PISSN: 09424962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00530-004-0153-4     Document Type: Article

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