Exploring second life

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-91

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

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c EURECOM   (France)

^d Technicolor   (France)

Author keywords

Measurement; peer to peer (P2P); Second Life (SL); virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS; INTERACTIVITY; MONITORING PERIODS; PEER TO PEER; SECOND LIFE; SECOND LIFE (SL); SMALL GROUPS; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES; USER EXPERIENCE; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 79951955349     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2010.2060351     Document Type: Article

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