Reducing Migration Latency for Distributed Virtual Environments by Mediation

To achieve the scalability, which is one of important research topics on the distributed virtual environment (DVE), the seamless architecture is usually used. In a seamless game world, a player may be unknowingly interacting with objects that are actually being controlled by multiple game processes...

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Published in2007 International Symposium on Information Technology Convergence (ISITC 2007) pp. 396 - 400
Main Authors Beob Kyun Kim, Dong Ki Won, Dong Un An, Seung Jong Chung
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2007
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Avatars
Communication system traffic control
Delay
Information technology
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Mediation
Network servers
Scalability
Traffic control
Virtual environment
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Summary:To achieve the scalability, which is one of important research topics on the distributed virtual environment (DVE), the seamless architecture is usually used. In a seamless game world, a player may be unknowingly interacting with objects that are actually being controlled by multiple game processes or servers. The game world is divided into several small pieces and managed by a cluster of game servers. Despite the efforts of developers, gamers are suffered from huge message traffic which comes from the chatting between gamers and the rendering of scene. This paper presents a method for the reducement of migration latency between game servers. Usually, message traffic reaches the peak when a player character is willing to move and is moving to other field server. MigAgent, introduced in this paper, mediates this kind of gamers to minimize traffic and to prepare for unexpected situation.
ISBN:0769530451
9780769530451
DOI:10.1109/ISITC.2007.81