Title :
Design of the Interactive Sharing Transfer Protocol
Author :
Waters, Richard C. ; Anderson, David B. ; Schwenke, Derek L.
Author_Institution :
Mitsubishi Electr. Res. Lab., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
The Interactive Sharing Transfer Protocol (ISTP) supports the sharing of information about a virtual world among a group of processes. The key advantages of ISTP are that it supports: near real-time interaction among users; the communication of every kind of information required in a virtual world; and scalability to large numbers of users and large virtual worlds. ISTP was developed in the context of the Spline platform for distributed virtual environments (DVEs)
Keywords :
distributed processing; interactive systems; protocols; real-time systems; user interfaces; virtual reality; HTTP; ISTP; Interactive Sharing Transfer Protocol; Spline platform; distributed virtual environments; information sharing; multicast; real-time interaction; scalability; virtual world; Bandwidth; Computer simulation; Context; Internet; Modems; Multicast protocols; Personal communication networks; Scalability; Spline; Virtual environment;
Conference_Titel :
Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1997. Proceedings., Sixth IEEE Workshops on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7967-0
DOI :
10.1109/ENABL.1997.630805
