ALVIC versus the Internet: Redesigning a Networked Virtual Environment Architecture
The explosive growth of the number of applications based on networked virtual environment technology, both games and virtual communities, shows that these types of applications have become commonplace in a short period of time. However, from a research point of view, the inherent weaknesses in their...
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| description | The explosive growth of the number of applications based on networked virtual environment technology, both games and virtual communities, shows that these types of applications have become commonplace in a short period of time. However, from a research point of view, the inherent weaknesses in their architectures are quickly exposed. The Architecture for Large-Scale Virtual Interactive Communities (ALVICs) was originally developed to serve as a generic framework to deploy networked virtual environment applications on the Internet. While it has been shown to effectively scale to the numbers originally put forward, our findings have shown that, on a real-life network, such as the Internet, several drawbacks will not be overcome in the near future. It is, therefore, that we have recently started with the development of ALVIC-NG, which, while incorporating the findings from our previous research, makes several improvements on the original version, making it suitable for deployment on the Internet as it exists today. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-430141ad36544dac947861abfd261f2e2025-02-03T05:59:39ZengWileyInternational Journal of Computer Games Technology1687-70471687-70552008-01-01200810.1155/2008/594313594313ALVIC versus the Internet: Redesigning a Networked Virtual Environment ArchitecturePeter Quax0Jeroen Dierckx1Bart Cornelissen2Wim Lamotte3Expertise Center For Digital Media, tUL, IBBT, Hasselt University, Wetenschapspark 2, 3590 Diepenbeek, BelgiumExpertise Center For Digital Media, tUL, IBBT, Hasselt University, Wetenschapspark 2, 3590 Diepenbeek, BelgiumExpertise Center For Digital Media, tUL, IBBT, Hasselt University, Wetenschapspark 2, 3590 Diepenbeek, BelgiumExpertise Center For Digital Media, tUL, IBBT, Hasselt University, Wetenschapspark 2, 3590 Diepenbeek, BelgiumThe explosive growth of the number of applications based on networked virtual environment technology, both games and virtual communities, shows that these types of applications have become commonplace in a short period of time. However, from a research point of view, the inherent weaknesses in their architectures are quickly exposed. The Architecture for Large-Scale Virtual Interactive Communities (ALVICs) was originally developed to serve as a generic framework to deploy networked virtual environment applications on the Internet. While it has been shown to effectively scale to the numbers originally put forward, our findings have shown that, on a real-life network, such as the Internet, several drawbacks will not be overcome in the near future. It is, therefore, that we have recently started with the development of ALVIC-NG, which, while incorporating the findings from our previous research, makes several improvements on the original version, making it suitable for deployment on the Internet as it exists today.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/594313 |
| spellingShingle | Peter Quax Jeroen Dierckx Bart Cornelissen Wim Lamotte ALVIC versus the Internet: Redesigning a Networked Virtual Environment Architecture International Journal of Computer Games Technology |
| title | ALVIC versus the Internet: Redesigning a Networked Virtual Environment Architecture |
| title_full | ALVIC versus the Internet: Redesigning a Networked Virtual Environment Architecture |
| title_fullStr | ALVIC versus the Internet: Redesigning a Networked Virtual Environment Architecture |
| title_full_unstemmed | ALVIC versus the Internet: Redesigning a Networked Virtual Environment Architecture |
| title_short | ALVIC versus the Internet: Redesigning a Networked Virtual Environment Architecture |
| title_sort | alvic versus the internet redesigning a networked virtual environment architecture |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/594313 |
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