Time management in the DoD high level architecture
PADS '96 Proceedings of the tenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Modeling and Simulating Critical Infrastructures and Their Interdependencies
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 2 - Volume 2
A federated approach to distributed network simulation
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
Middleware for real-time distributed simulations: Research Articles
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
HLA real-time extension: Research Articles
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
An Autonomic Approach to Denial of Service Defence
WOWMOM '05 Proceedings of the First International IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Computing (ACC'05) - Volume 02
Scalable and Efficient Parallel and Distributed Simulation of Complex, Dynamic and Mobile Systems
FIRB-PERF '05 Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Techniques, Methodologies and Tools for Performance Evaluation of Complex Systems
A Framework for Robust HLA-based Distributed Simulations
Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
A survey of autonomic communications
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
A self-aware approach to denial of service defence
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
An Overlay Simulator for Interdependent Critical Information Infrastructures
DEPCOS-RELCOMEX '07 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Dependability of Computer Systems
DS-RT '07 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
Towards Peer-to-Peer Based Distributed Simulations on a Grid Infrastructure
ANSS-41 '08 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Simulation Symposium (anss-41 2008)
Steps toward self-aware networks
Communications of the ACM - Barbara Liskov: ACM's A.M. Turing Award Winner
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The simulation of critical infrastructures (CI) can involve the use of diverse domain specific simulators that run on geographically distant sites. These diverse simulators must then be coordinated to run concurrently in order to evaluate the performance of critical infrastructures which influence each other, especially in emergency or resource-critical situations. We therefore describe the design of an adaptive communication middleware that provides reliable and real-time one-to-one and group communications for federations of CI simulators over a wide-area network (WAN). The proposed middleware is composed of mobile agent-based peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays, called virtual networks (VNets), to enable resilient, adaptive and real-time communications over unreliable and dynamic physical networks (PNets). The autonomous software agents comprising the communication middleware monitor their performance and the underlying PNet, and dynamically adapt the P2P overlay and migrate over the PNet in order to optimize communications according to the requirements of the federation and the current conditions of the PNet. Reliable communications is provided via redundancy within the communication middleware and intelligent migration of agents over the PNet. The proposed middleware integrates security methods in order to protect the communication infrastructure against attacks and provide privacy and anonymity to the participants of the federation. Experiments with an initial version of the communication middleware over a real-life networking testbed show that promising improvements can be obtained for unicast and group communications via the agent migration capability of our middleware.