VON swMATH ID: 7901 Software Authors: Hu SY, Chen JF, Chen TH Description: VON: a scalable peer-to-peer network for virtual environments. The scalability of large-scale networked virtual environments (NVEs) such as today’s massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) faces inherent limits imposed by client-server architectures. We identify an emerging research direction that applies peer-to-peer (P2P) networks in order to realize more scalable and affordable NVEs. The central issue for P2P-based NVE (P2P-NVE) systems is to correctly and efficiently maintain the topology of all participating peers by solving the neighbor discovery problem. We also propose the Voronoi-based overlay network (VON), a simple and efficient design that maintains the P2P topology in a fully-distributed, low-latency, and message-efficient manner. Simulation results show that by bounding the per-node resource consumption, VON can be fundamentally more scalable than existing methods while achieving high topology consistency and reliability Homepage: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1668400&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D1668400 Related Software: 3D triangulations; Triangle; CGAL; Chord; SCRIBE Cited in: 4 Publications all top 5 Cited by 12 Authors 1 Almashor, Mahathir 1 Botev, Jean 1 Chan, Mo-Che 1 Esch, Markus 1 Hu, Shun-Yun 1 Jiang, Jehn-Ruey 1 Khalil, Ibrahim 1 Liu, Elvis S. 1 Schloss, Hermann 1 Scholtes, Ingo 1 Sturm, Peter H. 1 Theodoropoulos, Georgios K. Cited in 3 Serials 1 Computing 1 ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 1 Computer Networks Cited in 2 Fields 4 Computer science (68-XX) 1 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) Citations by Year