Network requirements evaluation of a multi-user virtual environment

Author

Font, Juan L. ; Cascado, Daniel ; Sevillano, Jose L. ; Lopez, Gema ; Romero, Salvador ; Jimenez, Gabriel

Author_Institution

ETS Ing. Inf., Univ. de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

27-30 June 2011

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

97

Abstract

In this paper, the network traffic requirements of a virtual world based on Wonderland are studied. Object synchronization and voice traffic are studied and several experimental measures are made in order to obtain an accurate model. A simulator based on ns-3 is developed that allows us to obtain some useful preliminary results about the networking resources needed to execute Wonderland. The simulation model used in this preliminary study can be used in future experiments to obtain useful results on scalability and needed network resources when the Wonderland Virtual World is used by a number of distributed users placed in different locations.

Keywords

virtual reality; Wonderland are; multiuser virtual environment; network requirements evaluation; network resources; network traffic requirements; networking resources; object synchronization; simulation model; virtual world; voice traffic; Avatars; Computer architecture; Linux; Multiaccess communication; Protocols; Servers; Synchronization; Network Traffic; Virtual Worlds; Wonderland; ns-3 simulations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Performance Evaluation of Computer & Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), 2011 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

The Hague

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0139-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-61782-309-1

Type

conf

Filename

5984852