Efficient client-to-server assignments for distributed virtual environments

20th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ta, Duong Nguyen Binh ^a   Zhou, Sniping ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS (DVES); GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED SERVER ARCHITECTURE (GDSA); MILITARY SIMULATIONS; SHARED VIRTUAL WORLD;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33847155121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2006.1639288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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