Non-regular update packet transmission (2)

Advantages

• Reduction of update rates.

• Guarantee about the overall accuracy of the remote state information.

• Adaptation of the consistency-throughput based on the changing consistency demands of the net-VE

Problems

• No update to be transmitted (the prediction algorithm is really good or the entity is not moving)

• New participants will never receive any initial state.

• Recipients cannot tell the difference between the network failure, no movement of entity, no change of object behavior.

To solve the problem, use the timeout on packet transmission ("heartbeat").