On the characterization of peer-to-peer distributed virtual environments

Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 107-114

  Rueda, S ^a   Morillo, P ^a   Orduna J M ^a   Duato, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed virtual environments; Multiplayer online games; Peer to peer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SERVERS;

DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY; MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES; PEER-TO-PEER ARCHITECTURES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34547683551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VR.2007.352470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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