PVW: Designing Virtual World Server Infrastructure

Authors

Francis Chang, Portland State UniversityFollow
C. Mic Bowman, IntelFollow
Wu-chi Feng, Portland State UniversityFollow

Sponsor

Portland State University. Department of Computer Science

Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

2010

Subjects

Human-computer interaction, Virtual reality, Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing, Shared virtual environments, Computer architecture

Abstract

This paper presents a high level overview of PVW (Partitioned Virtual Worlds), a distributed system architecture for the management of virtual worlds. PVW is designed to support arbitrarily large and complex virtual worlds while accommodating dynamic and highly variable user population and content distribution density. The PVW approach enables the task of simulating and managing the virtual world to be distributed over many servers by spatially partitioning the environment into a hierarchical structure. This structure is useful both for balancing the simulation load across many nodes, as well as features such as geometric simplification and distribution of dynamic content.

Description

Portland State University Computer Science Department Technical Report #10-03, 2010.

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/30751

Citation Details

Chang, Francis; Bowman, C. Mic; and Feng, Wu-chi, "PVW: Designing Virtual World Server Infrastructure" (2010). Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations. 217.
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/30751