A Survey of Security issues in Collaborative Virtual Environment

Summary Collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) are computerenabled distributed systems that allow multiple users to work on different computers which are interconnected through different networks to interact in a shared virtual world. The security of CVE system becomes an important part of the system, because a weakness in CVEs might lead unpleasant results. In this paper, we survey the CVE systems and security issues in CVEs. We also suggest representative applications of CVE and major security requirements extracted from features of those applications and introduce security solutions of those requirements.

[1]  James Bret Michael,et al.  Security of runtime extensible virtual environments , 2002, CVE '02.

[2]  Tony Manninen,et al.  Interaction Forms in Multiplayer Desktop Virtual Reality Games , 2002 .

[3]  Martin Sumner Smith.  Collaboration for product development , 2003 .

[4]  Eva Pless,et al.  Networking Support for Collaborative Virtual Reality Projects in National, European and International Context , 2004, TERENA Networking Conference.

[5]  Steve Benford,et al.  An access control framework for multi-user collaborative environments , 1999, GROUP.

[6]  Sam Redfern,et al.  Collaborative Virtual Environments to Support Communication and Community in Internet-Based Distance Education , 2002, J. Inf. Technol. Educ..

[7]  Timothy K. Shih,et al.  Security and privacy technologies for distance education applications , 2004, 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2004. AINA 2004..

[8]  Shardrom Johnson,et al.  Research on a Visual Collaborative Design System: A High Performance Solution Based on Web Service , 2005 .

[9]  Kim Jin Soo,et al.  Design and Implementation of Security System for Wargame Simulation System , 2005 .

[10]  Hyun-Jin Choi,et al.  Security issues in online games , 2002, Electron. Libr..

[11]  Yi Pan,et al.  A peer-to-peer collaborative 3D virtual environment for visualization , 2004, IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging.

[12]  Rich Gossweiler,et al.  An Introductory Tutorial for Developing Multiuser Virtual Environments , 1994, Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments.

[13]  Gui Yun Tian,et al.  Design and implementation of a Web-based distributed collaborative design environment , 2001, Proceedings Fifth International Conference on Information Visualisation.

[14]  Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta,et al.  MOVE:: component groupware foundations for collaborative virtual environments , 2002, CVE '02.

[15]  Xiaojun Shen,et al.  A Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Virtual Environment for E-Commerce , 2007, 2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering.

[16]  Michael Gervautz,et al.  Collaborative gaming in augmented reality , 1998, VRST '98.

[17]  Mary Lou Maher,et al.  Shared understanding in computer-supported collaborative design , 1996, Comput. Aided Des..

[18]  Mary R. Thompson,et al.  Securing Resources in Collaborative Environments: A Peer-to-Peer Approach , 2005, IASTED PDCS.

[19]  Javier López,et al.  Non-repudiation protocols for multiple entities , 2004, Comput. Commun..