A case for 3D streaming on peer-to-peer networks

Web3D Symposium Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 57-63

  Hu, Shun Yun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3D streaming; Networked virtual environment (NVE); Overlay networks; Peer to peer (P2P); Scalability; Visibility determination; Voronoi

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; SCALABILITY; STANDARDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

3D STREAMING; NETWORKED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT (NVE); OVERLAY NETWORKS; VISIBILITY DETERMINATION;

VIDEO STREAMING;

EID: 34250781003     PISSN: 15529886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1122591.1122599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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