Community Discovery for Interest Management in DVEs: A Case Study

An efficient interest management is a fundamental requirement to support Distributed Virtual Environments (DVEs). As avatars move across the virtual environment, they often forming communities by gathering around hotspots. Distributed community discovery is a research area that gained momentum in the last years. In this paper we propose a case study evaluation on the impact of communities and community discovery on a distributed gossip-based interest management architecture for DVEs. Our experimental evaluation shows that communities have a positive impacts on interest management, at the expense of a small computational and communication overhead.