tutorial

Easing the development of HLA Federates: the HLA Development Kit and its exploitation in the SEE Project

Authors:

Alberto Falcone,

Anastasia Anagnostou,

Nauman R. Chaudhry,

Omar-Alfred Salah,

Simon J. E. TaylorAuthors Info & Claims

DS-RT 2015: Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications

Pages 50 - 57

https://doi.org/10.1109/DS-RT.2015.18

Published: 14 October 2015 Publication History

Abstract

The Modeling & Simulation (M&S) of modern cyber-physical systems is presenting new challenges. New M&S techniques, methods and tools are emerging that take advantage of distributed simulation environments. One of the most mature and popular standard for distributed simulation is the IEEE 1516-2010 - High Level Architecture (HLA) that, although originally developed for military applications, is increasingly exploited in a great variety of application domains due to its capabilities to enable the interoperability and reusability of distributed simulation components. However, the development of fully fledged simulation models, based on the IEEE 1516-2010 standard, is still a challenging task and requires considerable development effort that often results not only in an increase in development time but also in low reliability. In this context, the paper presents a general-purpose, domain-independent framework that aims to ease the development of HLA-based simulations. Its effectiveness is exemplified in the context of the Simulation Exploration Experience (SEE) project lead by NASA and which involves several U.S. and European Institutions.

References

[1]

J. Banks, J.S. Carson, B.L. Nelson, and D.M. Nicol, Discrete-Event System Simulation, 5th Ed., Prentice Hall, 2009.

[2]

A. Falcone, A. Garro, F. Longo, and F. Spadafora, Simulation Exploration Experience: A Communication System and a 3D Real Time Visualization for a Moon base simulated scenario. In Proc. of the 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (ACM/IEEE DS-RT), pp. 113--120, IEEE Computer Society, 2014.

Digital Library

[3]

G. Fortino, A. Garro, W. Russo, From Modeling to Simulation of Multi-Agent Systems: an integrated approach and a case study. In proc. Of the 2nd Multiagent System Technologies, pp. 213--227, 2004.

[4]

R. M. Fujimoto, Parallel and distributed simulation systems, John Wiley & Sons, 2010.

Digital Library

[5]

IEEE Standard for Modeling and Simulation (M&S) High Level Architecture (HLA): 1516--2010 (Framework and Rules); 1516.1-2010 (Federate Interface Specification); 1516.2-2010 (Object Model Template (OMT) Specification).

[6]

MÄK VR-Forces, {online}, available http://www.mak.com/.

[7]

B. Möller, The HLA tutorial v1.0, Pitch Technologies, Sweden.

[8]

M. J. North, N.T. Collier, J. Ozik, E. Tatara, M. Altaweel, C.M. Macal, M. Bragen, and P. Sydelko, Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling with Repast Simphony, Springer, 2013.

[9]

Simulation Exploration Experience (SEE) project, {online}, available http://www.exploresim.com/.

[10]

S.J.E. Taylor, P. Fishwick, R. Fujimoto, E. Page, A. Urhmacher, G. Wainer, Panel on Modeling & Simulation Grand Challenges. In Proc. of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), pp. 1--15, Association for Computing Machinery Press, New York, 2012.

Digital Library

[11]

S.J.E. Taylor, N. Revagar, J. Chambers, M. Yero, A. Anagnostou, A. Nouman, and N.R. Chaudhry, Simulation Exploration Experience: A Distributed Hybrid Simulation of a Lunar Mining Operation. In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (ACM/IEEE DS-RT), pp. 107--112, 2014.

Digital Library

[12]

S.J.E. Taylor, S.J. Turner, N. Mustafee, and S. Strassburger, Bridging the gap: a standards-based approach to OR/MS distributed simulation, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), Vol. 22(4), Article 18, 2012.

Digital Library

[13]

The Forwardsim HLA Toolbox for MATLAB, {online}, available http://www.forwardsim.com/products/hla-toolbox/.

[14]

O. Villimann, CTO Project, Documentation, HLA Framework. Danish Maritime Institute, 1999.

[15]

Y. Xie, Y.M. Teo, W. Cai, S.J. Turner, Towards grid-wide modeling and simulation, 2005.

[16]

S. Yu, S. Zhou, A survey on metric of software complexity. In Proc. of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information Management and Engineering (ICIME), pp. 352--356, IEEE Computer Society, 2010.

Cited By

Falcone AGarro AAnagnostou ATaylor S(2017)An introduction to developing federations with the high level architecture (HLA)Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/3242181.3242227(1-15)Online publication date: 3-Dec-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3242181.3242227
Falcone AGarro ATaylor SAnagnostou AGarro AD'Ambrogio A(2017)Simplifying the development of HLA-based distributed simulations with the HLA development kit software framework (DKF)Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications10.5555/3199858.3199901(216-217)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3199858.3199901
Bocciarelli PD'Ambrogio APaglia EGiglio AGarro AD'Ambrogio A(2017)An HLA-based BPMN extension for the specification of business process collaborationsProceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications10.5555/3199858.3199870(67-74)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3199858.3199870

Easing the development of HLA Federates: the HLA Development Kit and its exploitation in the SEE Project
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation types and techniques

Recommendations

Simplifying the development of HLA-based distributed simulations with the HLA development kit software framework (DKF)
DS-RT '17: Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications

The IEEE 1516--2010 - Standard for Modeling and Simulation High Level Architecture (HLA) range of standards are widely used for distributed simulation, interoperability, reusability and the modeling of large-scale systems in many application domains. ...
A Prototype HLA Development Kit: Results from the 2015 Simulation Exploration Experience
SIGSIM PADS '15: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation

The IEEE 1516-2010 High Level Architecture for distributed simulation is used to facilitate the development of large-scale simulations. However, there is a steep learning curve. The annual Simulation Exploration Experience (SEE) presents the opportunity ...
Implementing a distributed logistics simulation using Arena and HLA
SpringSim '09: Proceedings of the 2009 Spring Simulation Multiconference

This paper describes a successful implementation of a distributed logistics simulation by extending the Arena modeling environment with High Level Architecture (HLA) distributed simulation capabilities. The implementation is made up of two models: a ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

DS-RT 2015: Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications

October 2015

224 pages

ISBN:9781467378222

Sponsors

SIGSIM: ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling

Publisher

IEEE Press

Publication History

Published: 14 October 2015

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Tutorial
Research
Refereed limited

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

3
Total Citations
View Citations
39
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)1
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 06 Nov 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Falcone AGarro AAnagnostou ATaylor S(2017)An introduction to developing federations with the high level architecture (HLA)Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/3242181.3242227(1-15)Online publication date: 3-Dec-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3242181.3242227
Falcone AGarro ATaylor SAnagnostou AGarro AD'Ambrogio A(2017)Simplifying the development of HLA-based distributed simulations with the HLA development kit software framework (DKF)Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications10.5555/3199858.3199901(216-217)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3199858.3199901
Bocciarelli PD'Ambrogio APaglia EGiglio AGarro AD'Ambrogio A(2017)An HLA-based BPMN extension for the specification of business process collaborationsProceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications10.5555/3199858.3199870(67-74)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3199858.3199870

View Options

Get Access

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents