Peer clustering: A hybrid approach to distributed virtual environments

Proceedings of 5th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support for Games, NetGames '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chen, Alvin ^a   Muntz, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid architecture; MMO; Peer to peer

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; HYBRID APPROACH; HYBRID ARCHITECTURES; PEER TO PEER; RESOURCE CONSTRAINT; SYSTEM SECURITY; USER AUTHENTICATION;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; AUTHENTICATION; COST REDUCTION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953097474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1230040.1230076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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