Addressing the Challenge of Distributed Interactive Simulation With Data Distribution Service

TL;DR

This paper explores how the OMG Data Distribution Service can enhance real-time data sharing in large-scale distributed simulations, focusing on civil domain remote education applications.

Contribution

It presents design alternatives for implementing high-performance distributed interactive simulation using DDS, including experimental evaluation and comparison with HLA.

Findings

DDS provides high bandwidth and low latency performance.

DDS outperforms HLA in specific network scenarios.

The approach supports scalable and reliable remote education simulations.

Abstract

Real-Time availability of information is of most importance in large scale distributed interactive simulation in network-centric communication. Information generated from multiple federates must be distributed and made available to interested parties and providing the required QoS for consistent communication. The remainder of this paper discuss design alternative for realizing high performance distributed interactive simulation (DIS) application using the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS), which is a QoS enabled publish/subscribe platform standard for time-critical, data-centric and large scale distributed networks. The considered application, in the civil domain, is used for remote education in driving schools. An experimental design evaluates the bandwidth and the latency performance of DDS and a comparison with the High Level Architecture performance is given.