Latency-driven distribution: Infrastructure needs of participatory entertainment applications

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 106-112

  Safaei, Farzad ^a   Boustead, Paul ^a   Nguyen, Cong Duc ^a   Brun, Jeremy ^a   Dowlatshahi, Mehran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SERVERS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISTRIBUTED SERVER ARCHITECTURE; IMMERSIVE COMMUNICATION FLOWS; LATENCY DRIVEN DISTRIBUTION;

INTERNET;

EID: 20344371220     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2005.1453430     Document Type: Article

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