VON: a scalable peer-to-peer network for virtual environments
Shun-Yun Hu
Jui-Fa Chen
Tsu-Han Chen
Inst. of Phys., Acad. Sinica, Taipei;
This paper appears in: Network, IEEE
Publication Date: July-Aug. 2006
Volume: 20,
Issue: 4
On page(s): 22-31
ISSN: 0890-8044
INSPEC Accession Number: 9022798
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/MNET.2006.1668400
Current Version Published: 2006-08-14
Abstract
The scalability of large-scale networked virtual environments (NVEs) such as today's massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) faces inherent limits imposed by client-server architectures. We identify an emerging research direction that applies peer-to-peer (P2P) networks in order to realize more scalable and affordable NVEs. The central issue for P2P-based NVE (P2P-NVE) systems is to correctly and efficiently maintain the topology of all participating peers by solving the neighbor discovery problem. We also propose the Voronoi-based overlay network (VON), a simple and efficient design that maintains the P2P topology in a fully-distributed, low-latency, and message-efficient manner. Simulation results show that by bounding the per-node resource consumption, VON can be fundamentally more scalable than existing methods while achieving high topology consistency and reliability
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