A self-organized resource allocation scheme for decentralized distributed virtual environments

Abstract

With the growth of Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVEs) and increasingly interactive social networking platforms, it is widely accepted that their convergence renders today's centralized hosting approaches impracticable. To handle virtual environments of such massive scale, decentralized systems are necessary that also involve the resources of clients. The expedient design of techniques enabling this kind of next-generation decentralized distributed virtual environments (DDVEs) is a growing field of research. In the HyperVerse project, we aim at the provision of an infrastructure enabling such DDVEs, focusing on collaboration and self-organization as means to achieve a maximum degree of scalability. © 2010 ICST.