Issues in designing a communication architecture for large-scale virtual environments

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1736, Issue , 1999, Pages 54-71

  Léty, Emmanuel ^a   Turletti, Thierry ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; MULTICASTING;

CELL SIZE; COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURES; DYNAMIC PARTITIONING; LARGE-SCALE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; MULTICAST GROUPS; MULTIPLE AGENTS; SPATIAL AREA; TRANSPORT LAYERS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 22844454062     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-46703-8_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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