The hyperverse: Concepts for a federated and Torrent-based '3D Web'

International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 331-350

  Botev, Jean ^a   Hohfeld, Alexander ^a   Schloss, Hermann ^a   Scholtes, Ingo ^a   Sturm, Peter ^a   Esch, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Peer to peer; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

VIRTUAL REALITY;

DATA DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL SCALE; PEER TO PEER; PEER-TO-PEER APPROACH; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; TWO TIERS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 58149330611     PISSN: 14624613     EISSN: 17418003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAMC.2008.022219     Document Type: Article

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