GROUP: Dual-Overlay State Management for P2P NVE

Eliya Buyukkaya (1) , Maha Abdallah (1) , Romain Cavagna (1) , Shun-Yun Hu (2)

1 MALIRE - Machine Learning and Information Retrieval
2 IIS Sinica - Institute of Information Science

Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures have recently become a popular design choice to build scalable Networked Virtual Environments (NVEs). While P2P architectures offer better scalability than server-based architectures, efficient distribution and management of avatar and object states remains a highly challenging issue. In this paper, we propose GROUP, a fully-distributed P2P architecture for NVEs that addresses this issue by combining a structured P2P overlay, used for object state management, with a Voronoi-based overlay, used for avatar state and group membership management. The resulting dual overlay architecture enables efficient and fully distributed management of state updates for P2P-based NVEs.

Mots clés: Networked virtual environments; peer-to-peer systems; distributed hash tables; voronoi diagram; interest management; data distribution; state management

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]

Eliya Buyukkaya, Maha Abdallah, Romain Cavagna, Shun-Yun Hu. GROUP: Dual-Overlay State Management for P2P NVE. IEEE ICPADS Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Network Virtual Environment (P2P-NVE), Dec 2008, Melbourne, Australia. pp.817-822, ⟨10.1109/ICPADS.2008.122⟩. ⟨hal-00589746⟩