Paper Info
Title
Graphical High Level Analysis Of Communication In Distributed Virtual Reality Applications
Abstract
Analysing distributed virtual reality applications communicating through message-passing is challenging. Their development is complex, and knowing if something is wrong depends on the states of each process, defects (bugs) cause software crashes, hangs, and generation of incorrect results. To address this daunting problem we specify functional behavior models (for example, using synchronization barriers and shared variables) for these applications that ensures correctness. We also developed the GTracer tool, which compares the functional behavior models developed with the messages transmitted among processes. GTracer checks for violations of these models automatically and displays the message traffic graphically. It is a tool made for libGlass, a message library for distributed computing. We have been able to find several non-trivial defects during the tests of this tool.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.343
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE, ICCS 2015 COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AT THE GATES OF NATURE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Analysis, distributed computing, Virtual Reality, message passing, bug, defects
Synchronization,Shared variables,Virtual reality,Computer science,Correctness,Software,Message passing,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
51
1877-0509
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marcelo de Paiva Guimarães14014.89
Bruno Barberi Gnecco2223.10
Diego Roberto Colombo Dias3166.10
José Remo Ferreira Brega4237.91
Luís Carlos Trevelin5257.11