A scalable and low delay communication scheme for networked virtual environments

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 529-535

  Matsumoto, Nobutaka ^a   Kawahara, Yoshihiro ^a   Morikawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Aoyama, Tomonori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MULTICASTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED HASH TABLE (DHT); MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES (MMOG); PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK; PEER-TO-PEER-BASED ARCHITECTURE;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 20344372211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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