| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S04529/01 |
| Title: |
Middleware Services for Scalable Networked Virtual Environments |
| Principal Investigator: |
Morgan, Dr G |
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| Department: |
Computing Sciences |
| Organisation: |
Newcastle University |
| Scheme: |
First Grant Scheme Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
01 April 2003 |
Ends: |
31 March 2006 |
Value (£): |
69,753
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Networks & Distributed Systems |
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A networked virtual environment (net-VE) provides a graphical representation of a virtual world that may be navigated by geographically dispersed users. Mechanisms are provided to enable users to interact with the world and each other. A major challenge for the net-VE research community is providing net-VE services with qualities that ensure users share a mutually consistent view of a virtual world while enabling users to interact with each other in real-time. The aim of this project is to satisfy real-time and consistency requirements of net-VE applications via the introduction of a set of services based on group communications. We aim to ease the development of techniques used in net-VE applications (e.g., predictive modelling) by shielding developers from the low level programming associated with the network layer via a high level API. Our services may accommodate variations in quality of service of different parts of the underlying network by allowing developers to specify the trade off between message delivery guarantees (consistency) and real-time requirements on a per network link basis. By taking a modular approach to service deployment and providing our services within a Middleware infrastructure, we aim to make our services easily adaptable for use in many different net-VE applications.
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http://www.ncl.ac.uk |