Research on an Enabling Infrastructure for Distributed Simulation
Abstract
Distributed simulation plays an important role for the military modeling and simulation community. Various reasons support the integration of independent simulators into distributed simulation federations. Among these are the increased computational power becoming available, and the possibility of reusing already existing sophisticated software simulations for new purposes, i.e. a leveraging motivation. The US Department of Defense has devised its own standard for simulation reuse and interoperability, the High Level Architecture (HLA). The purpose of this report is firstly to analyze some of the issues that are related to distributed simulation in general. These issues include, for example, concepts of simulation timing or issues of simulation interoperability. Secondly, a close look has to be taken at the HLA and its implementation. the Run Time infrastructure RTI, to get a better understanding of the capabilities and the functioning of this tool. One goal of the effort reported on is to evaluate the HLA's particular applicability for the simulation of distributed data fusion and for military development, testing and evaluation (DT&E). Thirdly, a concept is devised for making use of the rather-complex HLA/RTI tool for small-scale university-type distributed simulation research. This is done by implementing an easy-to-use programming environment, based on HLA, and necessary control and support tools. In this report. this is called the "CMIF HLA Environment", as the work was conducted at the State University of New York's Center for Multisource Information Fusion or CMIF. As the last part of this work, a first proof of concept experiment/demo is done to validate the implemented software. This is realized by constructing a demo application, a distributed simulation experiment with several components that make use of all the features and mechanisms of the CMIF HLA environment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA391481
Entities
People
- Kai Harth
Organizations
- Calspan-University of Buffalo Research Center