Design of the Server Cluster for the Scalable Networked Virtual Environment

Abstract

This paper presents an architecture to design a server cluster for the scalable networked virtual environment. One of the key techniques to design such a scalable networked virtual environment is to partition the virtual world across multiple servers. However, the problem of the avatar migration from one server into another is the key issue of this approach. This paper proposes a mechanism to solve this problem. Furthermore, the mathematical model of data distribution management to control the message flow between the server and clients is also presented. With this mathematical model, the efficiency of the message flow control mechanism can be easily verified. Significantly, this model can also be used to estimate the performance of the designed server cluster. Finally, the message flow control algorithm for the proposed mechanism is presented at the end.