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| Considerations for HLA Federations of Communications Simulations | |||
| Redding,Eric | Rockwell Collins | ||
| Creech,Lawrence | Rockwell Collins | ||
| Anderson,Jackson | Rockwell Collins | ||
| The high-level architecture (HLA) standard allows for an automated interconnect of heterogeneous simulations. This federation of disparate simulations allows efficient and economical reuse of software to provide an environment in which to test and evaluate the operational performance of new protocols by measuring characteristics such as bandwidth consumption and message latency for the communication network. There are many design considerations required in the development of new simulations for the federation as well as the adaptation of legacy simulation systems to function in the HLA environment. Furthermore, the design of the software simulations must not preclude the inclusion of hardware-in-the-loop. This paper will detail some of these considerations. | |||
| Jackson Anderson, Eric Redding, and Larry Creech staff the Rockwell Collins Peformance Architectural Collaboration Environment (PACE) Laboratory, located at the Richardson, TX campus. Jackson Anderson is the technical director of the PACE Lab, while Eric Redding is the lead engineer for federated performance simulations and Larry Creech is the lead engineer for equipment-in-the-loop simulations. The PACE Lab is an environment for performing DoDAF-based behavioral modeling using UML, primarily for communications systems, and integrating those models with other models and legacy systems in a performance simulation testbed. | |||