A scalable interest management scheme for distributed virtual environments

Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-149

  Han, Seunghyun ^a   Lim, Mingyu ^a   Lee, Dongman ^a   Hyun, Soon J ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Distributed virtual environment; Interest management; Multicast; Scalability; Sub region; User interest group

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; FLOW INTERACTIONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MULTICASTING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; INTEREST MANAGEMENT; MULTICAST; SUB-REGION; USER INTEREST GROUP;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 54049131685     PISSN: 15464261     EISSN: 1546427X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cav.218     Document Type: Article

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