Title: The architecture of DIVINE: an object database server for collaborative virtual environment

Authors: William Hak-Lim Wong, Joseph Kee-Yin Ng, Chun Hung Li

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. ' Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. ' Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Abstract: This paper describes the issues involved in designing and implementing a large-scale cooperative object database server for collaborative virtual environment. The focus of this paper is the distributing factor and communication model between nodes. In DIVINE, all objects will be decentralised and scattered among three tiers of object databases. By limiting knowledge and refining tasks for each server, the network and processor workload can be reduced. The objective of the system is to provide a virtual environment for distributed computing with N + 1 fault tolerant and subject to expansion without interruption of services.

Keywords: distributed computing; peer-to-peer networks; P2P networks; collaborative virtual environments; collaboration; decentralisation; fault tolerance.

DOI: 10.1504/IJASS.2010.031558

International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, 2010 Vol.3 No.1, pp.115 - 133

Published online: 10 Feb 2010 *

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