Toward community-driven interest management for distributed virtual environment

Abstract

A fundamental requirement for The discovery and The retrieval of The entities of a distributed virtual environment is The definition of a scalable Interest Management (IM) support. This paper presents a distributed protocol for IM That integrates Two different gossip protocols. The first one based on a discrete Tessellation of The Area of Interest of a peer in order To maximise its coverage by The peer neighbours. The second is based on a distributed algorithm enabling The peers To self-organise Themselves in communities. The paper presents a set of experimental results showing The effectiveness of The proposed approach. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.