Abstract
This article describes the architecture and the network communication of a large-scale, networked virtual environment, which is designed to specifically support closely-coupled collaboration in highly interactive scenarios. Its main goals are the maintenance of low latency during user interaction and fast multicasting of messages in order to fulfill consistency requirements. This is achieved by sophisticated message distribution techniques, peer-to-peer connections between interacting clients and a global hierarchical communication topology. Scalability is realised through partitioning the virtual world.
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@article{cai-1472,
author = {Christoph Anthes and Adrian Haffegee and Paul Heinzlreiter and Jens Volkert},
title = {A Scalable Network Architecture for Closely Coupled Collaboration},
journal = {Computing and Informatics},
volume = {24},
number = {1},
pages = {31--51},
year = {2005},
issn = {1335-9150},
url = {https://cai.type.sk/content/2005/1/a-scalable-network-architecture-for-closely-coupled-collaboration/}
}
TY - JOUR AU - Christoph Anthes AU - Adrian Haffegee AU - Paul Heinzlreiter AU - Jens Volkert TI - A Scalable Network Architecture for Closely Coupled Collaboration JO - Computing and Informatics VL - 24 IS - 1 SP - 31 EP - 51 PY - 2005 SN - 1335-9150 UR - https://cai.type.sk/content/2005/1/a-scalable-network-architecture-for-closely-coupled-collaboration/ KW - Distributed virtual environments KW - closely-coupled collaboration KW - scalability ER -
Anthes, C., Haffegee, A., Heinzlreiter, P., & Volkert, J. (2005). A Scalable Network Architecture for Closely Coupled Collaboration. Computing and Informatics, 24(1), 31–51. https://cai.type.sk/content/2005/1/a-scalable-network-architecture-for-closely-coupled-collaboration/