To better understand the technological requirements of academic institutions looking to
implement an OpenSimulator virtual world grid, an observational study was performed to …

Virtual worlds are both computation and communication intensive as they provide rich
content and frequent updates to players for an improved performance. Virtual worlds use …

OpenSimulator has emerged as one of the leading tools to help researchers, developers,
and practitioners working in the field of virtual worlds since it is an open-source alternative to …

OpenSimulator, when configured in grid mode, is highly scalable and places no restriction
on the number of running OpenSimulator instances, often called Simulator, or the number of …

Scalability is one of the major issues to cope with, in digital spaces, called virtual worlds,
usually parallel and distributed in nature. In our previous work, we developed a framework …

Abstract Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) is a shared application consisting many
objects, which can be accessed by many users. There have been many methods used to …

Virtual worlds have recently emerged as interactive and collaborative virtual spaces that
have unique features. Existing mechanisms originally developed for games or simulation …

Abstract Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) is a shared application consisting many
objects, which can be accessed by many users. There have been many methods used to …

Virtual Environment (VE) is a simulation application that is widely used for the development
of computer generated synthetic environments. A Distributed VE (DVE) allows many users to …

Load Balancing for Virtual Worlds by Splitting and Merging Spatial Regions 1 Introduction Page
1 Informatica 42 (2018) 107–116 107 Load Balancing for Virtual Worlds by Splitting and …