Channeling the data flood

Author

Roehle, Bernie

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

34

Issue

3

fYear

1997

fDate

3/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

38

Abstract

The distributed virtual environment (DVE) can provide a simulated environment in which two or more participants interact with each other and with their surroundings. In working with this software, users face great technological problems, of which the biggest are: managing the enormous data loads involved; negotiating the interplay of all the virtual objects, including the virtual people; and creating the most efficient network topologies possible for users´ machines. At the network level, each occupant of a DVE system uses a computer that is connected to a local- or wide-area network (LAN or WAN), which provides information on the changing state of the virtual environment and its contents. The paper discusses the design of a distributed virtual environment and the use of the Internet

Keywords

Internet; data handling; distributed processing; interactive systems; virtual reality; Internet; LAN; WAN; data flood; data management; distributed virtual environment; interactive system; local-area network; network topologies; simulated environment; virtual objects; virtual people; wide-area network; Avatars; Bandwidth; Communication system software; Computer networks; Delay; Distributed computing; Floods; Software maintenance; Virtual environment; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Spectrum, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9235

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/6.576006

Filename

576006