Date of Award:
2012
Document Type:
Dissertation
Degree Name:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department:
Computer Science
Advisor/Chair:
Dr. Daniel Watson
Abstract
Massively multiplayer online environments continue to grow in popularity, with cur- rent technical designs based upon a well-proven client-server model. This approach has some inherent limitations, high costs to provision server resources for peak demands and restriction of the maximum number of concurrent participants within a virtual environ- ment. Incorporating peer-to-peer (P2P) techniques provides developers the opportunity to significantly reduce costs, while also breaking through the barrier of the number of concur- rent participants within a single virtual environment. This dissertation presents a hybrid P2P design incorporating a managed server along with a Voronoi-based P2P overlay for the development of massive virtual environments. In this design, the managed server en- sures a secure computing environment and long-term persistent storage, with the virtual environment simulation distributed among the peers, ensuring computational scalability.
Recommended Citation
Mathias, James Dean, "Peer-to-Peer Simulation of Massive Virtual Environments" (2012). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1164.
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1164
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Comments
This work made publicly available electronically on April 10, 2012.