Scalability, fast response time, and low cost are of utmost importance in designing a
successful massively multiplayer online game. The underlying architecture plays an …

Users nowadays are normally involved in multiple (usually more than two) online social
networks simultaneously to enjoy more social network services. Some of the networks that …

The past two decades have witnessed an explosion in the deployment of large-scale
distributed simulations and distributed virtual environments in different domains, including …

Abstract The idiom by Thomas Fuller fantasizes the fact that seeing is believing, but the
feeling is the truth. This ideology has fired the vision and innovation of the Mulsemedia …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures have become popular for designing scalable virtual
environments (VEs) in recent years. However, one question that remains is whether a single …

Supporting the huge amount of network traffic from three-dimensional (3-D) streaming is an
extremely important challenge, as 3-D streaming has the potential to cause network …

Modern multimedia systems are increasingly supporting multimodal human–computer
interaction. The term multimodal refers to the semantic correlation of multiple sensorial …

This paper proposes Bandwidth-Aware Peer Selection (BAPS), a peer selection strategy that
improves the bandwidth utilisation for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) 3D streaming in a real-time Virtual …

Recent technical progress on the Internet and virtual reality has enabled the proliferation of
the applications of distributed virtual environments (DVEs). In a DVE, high-resolution 3D …

3D streaming over thin mobile devices is considered challenging due to the mobile devices'
limited capabilities such as limited energy lifetime, processing power, storage capacity, and …