Middleware for real-time distributed simulations: Research Articles

  • Authors:
  • Thom McLean;Richard Fujimoto;Brad Fitzgibbons

  • Affiliations:
  • aff1 Information Technology and Telecommunications Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA 30332-0832, U.S.A.;aff2 College Of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280, U.S.A.;aff2 College Of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0280, U.S.A.

  • Venue:
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Distributed simulation applications often rely on middleware to provide services to support their execution over distributed computing environments. Such middleware spans many levels, ranging from low-level support for data transmission through object request brokers to higher level, simulation specific functionality such as time management. We discuss design alternatives for realizing such middleware for hard real-time distributed simulations such as hardware-in-the-loop applications. We present the results from tests of a prototype implementation of real-time Run-Time Infrastructure middleware. Its performance is compared with a non-real-time implementation. The context for this work is the High Level Architecture standard that has been defined by the U.S. Department of Defense. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.