Critical causal order of events in distributed virtual environments

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Zhou, Suiping ^a,c   Cai, Wentong ^a,c   Turner, Stephen J ^a,c   Lee, Bu Sung ^a,c   Wei, Junhu ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Causal order; Distributed simulation; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

CAUSAL ORDER; DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION; ORDER DELIVERY;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34548742280     PISSN: 15516857     EISSN: 15516865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1236471.1236474     Document Type: Article

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