Distributed avatar management for second life

2009 8th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games, NetGames 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Varvello, Matteo ^a,b   Ferrari, Stefano ^a,b   Biersack, Ernst ^b   Diot, Christophe ^a  

^a FCA UNESP   (Brazil)

^b EURECOM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT/SERVER; DELAUNAY; HIGH COSTS; INTERACTIVITY; P2P NETWORK; PEER TO PEER; PLANETLAB; SECOND LIFE; USER EXPERIENCE; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 77952664305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NETGAMES.2009.5446230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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