Introduction to military training simulation: a guide for discrete event simulationists
Proceedings of the 30th conference on Winter simulation
Parallel and distributed simulation
Proceedings of the 31st conference on Winter simulation: Simulation---a bridge to the future - Volume 1
Theory of Modeling and Simulation
Theory of Modeling and Simulation
TCP/IP Protocol Suite
Aurora: An Approach to High Throughput Parallel Simulation
Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
Distributed Simulation: A Case Study in Design and Verification of Distributed Programs
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Using an implicit min/max KD-tree for doing efficient terrain line of sight calculations
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Visualisation and Interaction in Africa
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A legacy non-distributed logical time simulator is migrated to a distributed architecture to parallelise execution. The existing Discrete Time System Specification (DTSS) modelling formalism is retained to simplify the reuse of existing models. This decision, however means that the high simulation frame rate of 100Hz used in the legacy system has to be retained in the distributed one---a known difficulty for existing distribution technologies due to inter-process communication latency. A specialised publish-subscribe simulation model is used for the new simulator architecture. The simulation model, including the process synchronisation, is implemented using a low latency peer-to-peer TCP messaging protocol. The TCP send and receive buffers and TCP's Nagle algorithm are also tweaked to ensure low latency communication. Gigabit Ethernet is used at the hardware layer. A parallelised execution speed-up of four to five times is reached with six to eight machines at a simulation frame rate of 100Hz.