Building Self-Reconfiguring Distributed Virtual Environments,
Abstract
A distributed virtual environment may be required to reconfigure itself to compensate for various conditions that can occur during execution. An example is the reentry of a virtual environment that was previously reconfigured out of the distributed virtual environment due to failure. If there is a human user of this virtual environment, care must be taken to insure that he is brought back into the distributed virtual environment in a way that makes sense. He cannot regain control of a tank that is out of ammunition while a computer-based simulation controls actively participating tanks. The compensating reconfiguration function of a distributed virtual environment must detect conditions that dictate reconfiguration. It must determine the proper course of action and act on it, bringing the distributed virtual environment to a stable state as quickly as possible. Proper reconfiguration of a distributed virtual environment requires that the compensating reconfiguration software know the system configuration, the virtual state, and the mapping between them.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA356789
Entities
People
- Donald J. Welch
Organizations
- University of Maryland