Concurrency control mechanisms for closely coupled collaboration in multithreaded peer-to-peer virtual environments

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 296-314

  Linebarger, John M ^a   Kassier, G Drew ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMERSIVE SYSTEMS; TRANSACTION PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SYNCHRONIZATION; UNIX; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CONCURRENCY CONTROL;

EID: 3042769147     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/1054746041422316     Document Type: Review

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