A zone based architecture for massively multi-user simulations

Simulation Series

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 149-156

  Kazem, Ihab ^a   Ahmed, Dewan Tanvir ^a   Shirmohammadi, Shervin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Application layer multicasting; Area of interest management; Massively multiplayer online games; Multi user collaboration; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION LAYERS; AREA OF INTEREST; COLLABORATION ARCHITECTURE; DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; MULTI-USER COLLABORATION; SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS; UNDERLYING NETWORKS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MULTICASTING; NETWORK LAYERS; OVERLAY NETWORKS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 84893519054     PISSN: 07359276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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