A peer-to-peer message exchange scheme for large-scale networked virtual environments

Telecommunication Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 353-370

  Kawahara, Yoshihiro ^a   Aoyama, Tomonori ^a   Morikawa, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D chat; Networked virtual environment; Peer to peer

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; MULTICASTING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SERVERS; WEBSITES;

3D CHAT; MESSAGE EXCHANGE; NETWORKED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT (NVE); PEER (P2P);

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 3543148305     PISSN: 10184864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TELS.0000014789.70171.fd     Document Type: Article

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