A distributed control scheme for causality and media synchronization in networked multimedia games

Author

Ishibashi, Yutaka ; Tasaka, Shuji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

14-16 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

144

Lastpage

149

Abstract

This paper proposes a distributed control scheme for causality and media synchronization in networked games where plural media streams such as computer data, voice, and video are dealt with together. According to the network load, the scheme adaptively preserves the temporal and causal relationships which exist among the media streams. It also performs group (or inter-destination) synchronization control, which adjusts the output timing among terminals for keeping the fairness among them. Furthermore, it exerts error control over computer data and video traffic control. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the scheme by carrying out an experiment of a networked shooting game.

Keywords

Internet; causality; computer games; distributed control; integrated voice/data communication; multimedia communication; synchronisation; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; visual communication; Internet; causality; data communication; distributed control scheme; error control; fairness; group synchronization control; media synchronization; network load; networked multimedia games; networked shooting game; plural media streams; traffic control; video communication; voice communication; Adaptive control; Computer networks; Distributed control; Games; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Network servers; Programmable control; Streaming media; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 2002. Proceedings. Eleventh International Conference on

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7553-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.2002.1043059

Filename

1043059