FloRA: flock-based resource allocation for decentralized distributed virtual environments
Proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
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Massive Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVEs) and especially the idea of a ''3D Web'' as a combination of a MMVE and today's WWW currently attracts a lot of attention. The realization of such a vision on a global scale though poses severe technical challenges to the underlying network infrastructure. It is generally accepted that such a global scale scenario can only be realized in a distributed fashion. The HyperVerse project aims at the provision of a federated global scalable infrastructure for such a ''3D Web'' scenario. We propose a two-tier Peer-to-Peer infrastructure that combines a loosely structured overlay network of user clients with a highly-structured overlay network of reliable so-called Public Servers constituting the backbone of our architecture. This paper presents the Grid-based Plane Partitioning Protocol (GP3), a structured Peer-to-Peer overlay network for the interconnection of the Public Servers that realizes a spatial index in order to allow fast location based queries.