SCORE: A scalable communication protocol for large-scale virtual environments

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 247-260

  Léty, Emmanuel ^a   Turletti, Thierry ^a   Baccelli, François ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Area of interest manager (AOIM); Cell based grouping; Communication protocol; Large scale virtual environments (LSVE); Multiple multicast groups; Scalability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERNET; MULTICASTING; PROBABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AREA OF INTEREST MANAGER; CELL-BASED GROUPING; LARGE-SCALE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIPLE MULTICAST GROUP; SCALABILITY; SCALABLE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 2442434604     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2004.826276     Document Type: Article

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