SCALABLE INTER-REGION INTERACTION MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

摘要

The present invention relates to inter-region interaction management techniques for scalability in a distributed virtual environment to perform the inter-region interact to support scalability of the system while minimizing the communication load in a large distributed virtual environment effectively, to do this the present invention, dividing the respective areas obtained by dividing an arbitrary virtual space in a large distributed virtual environment into two sub-regions, each assigned to a different multicast address to each of the sub-divided region, and a different multicast address, the user in the region in which each of interest to them through by to transmit or receive an update message only (i.e., users in the boundary sub-area of ​​an adjacent region adjacent to the zone they belong to), exchanged mutually between users during operation it can dramatically reduce the amount of messages, a large distributed virtual environments The communication load on the system generated during the interaction between the user performed in the virtual space can be greatly reduced.