Research Article
A Virtualization-based approach for zone migration in distributed virtual environments
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245557, author={Duong Ta and Thang Nguyen and Tran Nguyen and Nguyen Do and Xueyan Tang and Wentong Cai and Suiping Zhou}, title={A Virtualization-based approach for zone migration in distributed virtual environments}, proceedings={2nd International Workshop on DIstributed SImulation \& Online gaming}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={DISIO}, year={2012}, month={4}, keywords={Virtualization distributed virtual environment zone migration}, doi={10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245557} }- Duong Ta
Thang Nguyen
Tran Nguyen
Nguyen Do
Xueyan Tang
Wentong Cai
Suiping Zhou
Year: 2012
A Virtualization-based approach for zone migration in distributed virtual environments
DISIO
ACM
DOI: 10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245557
Abstract
This paper deals with the zone migration problem in large-scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs), e.g., massively multi-player online games, distributed military simulations, etc. To support real-time interactions among thousands of concurrent, geographically separated clients, a distributed server architecture is generally needed. In such architecture, the large virtual world can be partitioned into multiple smaller zones, enabling load distributions or zone-to-server mappings to improve interactivity. For example, a zone might be mapped (assigned) to a server location near most of its clients to reduce network latency. In this paper, we consider the problem of live zone migration over wide area networks (WANs) to support DVE zone re-mapping or load re-distribution in a geographically distributed server infrastructure. We propose a virtualization-based zone migration approach, and develop several migration algorithms to effectively migrate multiple DVE zones.