An event server architecture for the large scaled virtual cooperative envirinment on the internet

Abstract

In the fields of networked virtual environments we meet the limitation of real-time event processing in the shared virtual workspace for massively and globally participated users on the internet. In this paper, we design an architecture of event servers that supports light-weight event messaging and guarantees real-time event processing for distributed virtual environments on the internet with large scale workspace and multi-participants. In the design concept of event servers we focus on the event server components in the part of distributed virtual environments. Using the stand alone event server on the internet we maintain the information of multiple user connections and the shared states information for real-time event management. The event server component will be able to apply the distributed virtual workspace server to the scalable server architecture for maintaining the consistency of shared workspace and real-time updating of shared state information in the virtual worlds.