基于缓冲Cell用户迁移方法研究.pdfVIP

ISSNN 111777TP Journal of Computer Research and Development 5( 10) : 165 1661, 2008 Cell 周 忠 王少峰 吴 威 ( ( ) 100083) ( 100083) ( zz@ vrlab. buaa. edu. cn) An Avatar Migration Mechanism Based on Cell Buffer Zhou Zhong, Wang Shaofeng, and Wu Wei (State K ey Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beij ing 100083) (School of omp uter Science and Technology , Beihang University , Beij ing 100083) Abstract Avatar migration w hich changes the resident server of an avatar is an important issue in distributed virtual environment. Existing methods for multiserver DVE ( distributed virtual environment) systems mainly conduct avatar migration according to the relationship betw een the avatars movement and serversregion buffer , and the region buffers are fixed. H ow ever, regions are often regulated to balance the load in the latest multiserver DVE technologies. T hen affected avatars have to migrate during the period of region regulation. This avatar migration of dynamic region buffer needs further study. An avatar migration mechanism based on cell buffer is proposed in this paper, w here each region buffer is composed of a group of cells. Both cell and avatar are assigned to some status. Avatar migration is induced by tw o kinds, either avatar movement or region regulation. T he mechanism abstracts the tw o kinds into a process of four critical conditions of status migration. M igration operations are devised on the status of avatar and the cell it resides on. In this w ay, many avatars can migrate concurrently w ith efficiency. The attribute update request of an avatar is only put in its region servers charge, w hich guarantees the status consistency. Experiments show that the mechanism can support concurrent migration efficiently, adding a low communication co