Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Masterat

FISA DISCIPLINEI

Codul
Denumirea disciplinei
MID1018 Tehnici avansate în medii virtuale distribuite
Specializarea
Semestrul
Ore: C+S+L
Categoria
Statutul
Baze de date
3
2+0+2
specialitate
optionala
Sisteme distribuite în Internet
3
2+0+2
specialitate
optionala
Metode formale în programare - în limba engleză
3
2+0+2
specialitate
optionala
Modelare si simulare - în limba engleză
3
2+0+2
specialitate
optionala
Titularii de disciplina
Lect. Dr. BOIAN Rares Florin,  rarescs.ubbcluj.ro
Obiective
Study distributed architectures for collaborative virtual environments. Present distributed approaches to virtual environment rendering. Study methods of implementing force-feedback across the network and present solutions for addressing latency.
Continutul
• Lecture 1: Distributed VEs introduction and examples [1 chapter 9] [10 chapters 43, 44 ]
• Lecture 2: Introduction to OpenGL and the OpenSceneGraph library [8]
• Lecture 3: Present base distributed VE architecture to be used during the course [1 chapter 9]
• Lecture 4: Collaborative virtual environments. Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS). Dead reckoning. [4 chapter 7]
• Lecture 5: Distributed games. P2P network architectures [1 chapter 9] [5 chapter 1]
• Lecture 6: Real-time network communication. Concepts of delay and jitter. Protocol comparison: UDP vs TCP. [4][11]
• Lecture 7: Multicasting concepts and algorithms [9]
• Lecture 8: Introduction to the Real-Time Protocol (RTP) [11]
• Lecture 9: Force feedback rendering [2]
• Lecture 10: Distributed force rendering. Stability aspects. [4]
• Lecture 11: Volume graphics concepts and ray casting algorithm [6]
• Lecture 12: Parallel and distributed ray casting [3 chapter 3]
• Lecture 13: Coherent distributed ray casting [3 chapter 5]
• Lecture 14: Concepts of physical based modeling [7 chapter 2]
Bibliografie
1. BOIAN R.F. Robotic Mobility Rehabilitation System Using Virtual Reality. ProQuest, 2005
2. BURDEA G.C. Force and Touch Feedback for Virtual Reality, Wiley-Interscience, 1996
3. CHALMERS A., DAVIS T.A., REINHARD E. Practical Parallel Rendering. AK Peters, 2002
4. FUJIMOTO R., Parallel and Distributed Simulation Systems. Wiley-Interscience, 2001
5. GRADECKI J.D., Mastering JXTA: Building Java Peer-to-Peer Applications, 2001
6. HADWIGER M., KNISS J.M., REZK-SALAMA C., WEISKOPF D., ENGEL K. Real-time Volume Graphics. A K Peters, 2006
7. HUEBNER K.H., DEWHIRST D.L., SMITH D.E., BYROM T.G., The Finite Element Method for Engineers. Wiley-Interscience, 2001
8. OPENGL ARCHITECTURE REVIEW BOARD, SHREINER D., WOO M., NEIDER J., DAVIS T. OpenGL Programming Guide, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005
9. PAUL S. Multicasting on the Internet and its Applications. Springer, 2003
10. STANNEY K. Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002
11. STEVENS W.R., FENNER B., RUDOFF A.M. UNIX Network Programming. The Sockets Networking API. Addison-Wesley, 2004
Evaluare
The activity ends with a written final exam. During the semester, the students will have to implement several software projects in the topic.
Final grade consists of:
• Final written exam: 50%
• Projects 50%
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