Virtual worlds, real traffic: Interaction and adaptation

MMSys'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMM Conference on Multimedia Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 305-316

  Oliver, Iain A ^a   Miller, Alan H D ^a   Allison, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multi media; QoS; Traffic measurement; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; FOLLOW UP; INTERNET APPLICATION; MULTI-MEDIA; NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS; NETWORK LATENCIES; REAL TRAFFIC; SECOND LIFE; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SCHEME; TRAFFIC MEASUREMENTS; USER EXPERIENCE; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 77951277543     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1730836.1730873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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