HyperVerse: simulation and testbed reconciled

—When dealing with dynamic large-scale topologies such as those underlying peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed virtual environments (DVE), one inescapably reaches the point where either a) simulations lack human behavior and assessment or where b) practical experiments on a small scale do not yield significant results. The restrictions resulting from the separation of simulation and testbed environments hinder a comprehensive assessment and efficient development of adaptive algorithms and techniques for DVEs as they are investigated in our HyperVerse research project. In this article, we present a hybrid evaluation system designed to combine the advantages of simulations and testbeds. The proposed infrastructure exhibits great flexibility particularly alluring in view of the multitude of potential research in the context of DVEs. I. MOTIVATION It is beyond controversy that the design of scalable DVEs is a challenging task. Their commissioning and maintenance being both laborious and co...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: IJAMC
• Authors: Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Scholtes, Peter Sturm
• Keywords: IJAMC 2010, Real-world Conditions, Simulations, Virtual Environments