• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.59-64
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• 2008

In this paper, stability and transparency analysis for client/server haptic-based networked virtual environment (NVE) is introduced. From this analysis the appropriate communication structure for the more stable and transparent haptic interactions can be derived. Also, it is possible to expect and compensate the quality deterioration of haptic interactions according to certain network conditions In order to verify the usefulness of the analysis, simple haptic-based NVE application is implemented. For the stability verification, the vibration or strange movement of haptic interface and virtual object are measured under various network states. In addition, the usefulness of the proposed transparency analysis and network delay compensation scheme is verified by comparing distorted and compensated force feedbacks with real force feedback.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.188-196
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• 2002

As networked virtual environment (NVE) scales in terms of users and network latency, a key aspect to consider is scalability for interactive performance because a large number of objects likely impose heavy burden especially on the network and computational resources. To improve the scalability, various relevance-filtering mechanism have been proposed. However, the existing filtering mechanism do not scale well in terms of interactive performance as the number of users increase and crowds in a specific place. In this paper, we propose a new scalable filtering scheme which reduces the number of messages by dynamically grouping users based on their interests and distance. Within a group, members communicate with each other with high fidelity. However, a representative sends up-to-dated group information of members with low transmission frequency when they are not of immediate interest but are still within the interest area. The representative is elected from members of the group in distributed manner. The proposed scheme enhances the interactive performance scalability of large-scale NVE systems as much as 18% compared with the existing approach.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.208-214
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• 2006

Participants of a NVE(networked virtual environment) may have different hardwares and network environments, and to guarantee the fairness, messages of participants should be synchronized. A solution for the synchronization problem is to wait for a certain amount of time until the server processes the message. It is not easy to determine a suitable waiting period because of the trade-off between the fairness and the responsiveness. In this paper we propose a method to decide a waiting period by considering only the participants with small network delays and perform experiments for the performance evaluation. Experiments show that the proposed method leads to significant improvement of responsiveness, while retaining fairness.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.69-73
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• 2009

Network Virtual Environments (NVEs) is a virtual world where users exchanges messages via network connection. A limited visibility sphere called area of interest (AOI) is used to reduce the load created by the interactions between users. VON-Forwarding model is proposed as an effective methods to reduce network bandwidth in P2P network environment. Vorocast and Fibocast originated from Von-forwarding resolves the problems to receive the same messages repeatly. In this paper, We proposed an Extended Volocast scheme to improve the problem not to get consistency except a limited area near to the center of AOI. The proposed scheme maintains the consistency about the broad area into AOI by adjusting geometrical series $2^X$. We perform simulation experiments to show that the proposed scheme provide better performance compared to the other schemes.