GameOD: An internet based game-on-demand framework

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 129-136

  Li, Frederick W B ^a   Lau, Rynson W H ^b   Kilis, Danny ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c PCCW Business eSolutions (HK) Ltd   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Distributed synchronization; Distributed virtual environments; Multiplayer online games; On demand replication

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; ROM; SYNCHRONIZATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISTRIBUTED SYNCHRONIZATION; DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; ON-DEMAND REPLICATION;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 16244371878     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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