A consistency algorithm for causal and totally ordered event delivery in DVE

How to preserve causal and totally ordered event delivery is an important issue in real-time serverless DVE(Distributed Virtual Environment). However, most of the related works are designed to maintain causal order merely or time stamped order with intensive computation and bandwidth overhead. In this paper, we proposed a novel distributed algorithm to maintain the before-and-after relationship between events, both causal and concurrent, of DVE at each individual node. Several simulation experiments are carried out to evaluate the performance of our algorithm and the results demonstrate that the algorithm is effective in preserving causal and totally ordered event delivery and more efficient than the previous algorithms.