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Towards an Information Model of Consistency Maintenance in Distributed Interactive Applications

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: A novel framework to model and explore predictive contract mechanisms in distributed interactive applications (DIAs) using information theory is proposed. In our model, the entity state update scheme is modelled as an information generation, encoding, and reconstruction process. Such a perspective facilitates a quantitative measurement of state fidelity loss as a result of the distribution protocol. Results from an experimental study on a first‐person shooter game are used to illustrate the utility of this measurement process. We contend that our proposed model is a starting point to reframe and analyse consistency maintenance in DIAs as a problem in distributed interactive media compression.

Source: International Journal of Computer Games Technology

DOI: 10.1155/2008/371872

Authors: Xin Zhang, Tomás E. Ward, Séamus McLoone

Institution: National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Language: English

Topic: Distributed systems and fault tolerance

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,000

Funders: Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, Irish Research Council