01573nas a2200169   4500008004100000245003300041210003300074260001700107300001500124520108100139100002101220700002501241700001301266700001501279700001401294856009501308       2009                        eng d00aManaging Objects in P2P DVEs0 aManaging Objects in P2P DVEs  cJuly 13 - 16  a 783 - 7893 aPeer to Peer Distributed Virtual Environment
systems have become a scalable solution for supporting a large
number of users. One of the main challenges for these systems is
to solve the awareness problem, since it is necessary for providing
a consistent view of the environment to each participant of the
simulation. Although different strategies have been proposed,
they exclusively focus on users. Nevertheless, most of current
DVE systems include additional non-autonomous elements,
denoted as objects, whose state should also be known to system
clients. This paper studies the different attributes and
characteristics that objects can have and can affect to their
management. Based on this study, this paper presents an
extension of a previously proposed avatar awareness method
(COVER), re-designed and modified for providing object
awareness in a distributed way. The performance evaluation
results show that the resulting awareness technique allows system
users to efficiently manage objects in a distributed way without
affecting the overall performance of the system.1 aBouras, Christos1 aGiannaka, Eleftheria1 aRueda, S1 aMorillo, P1 aOrduna, J  uhttp://telematics.upatras.gr/telematics/publications/managing-objects-p2p-dves?language=en