Title
Hierarchical federations: an architecture for information hiding
Abstract
In a distributed simulation, simulation components of various types are executed at geographically different locations, forming a simulation federation to create a common virtual environment. Under the High Level Architecture (HLA), information that will be produced and consumed by a simulation component is defined in its object model, and how that information is produced and consumed is well encapsulated inside the simulation component's implementation. However in the current implementation of the HLA's Runtime Infrastructure (RTI), information hiding between groups of simulation components in a simulation federation is not addressed. The authors discuss how hierarchical federation architectures can be used to tackle this problem. The hierarchical federation architecture adopted in the paper differs from the existing architectures in that it is based on a hybrid approach for interoperability between simulation federations. To demonstrate information hiding using the architecture, a distributed semiconductor supply-chain simulation is also described
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/PADS.2001.924622
Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation
Keywords
Field
DocType
open systems,existing architecture,information hiding,virtual reality,common virtual environment,hybrid approach,distributed semiconductor supply-chain simulation,distributed simulation,simulation components,object model,simulation component,high level architecture,data encapsulation,current implementation,runtime infrastructure,semiconductor supply-chain simulation,simulation component implementation,object-oriented programming,digital simulation,hierarchical federation architectures,simulation federations,hierarchical federations architecture,distributed processing,simulation federation,object oriented programming,computational modeling,logistics,computer architecture,computer simulation,distributed computing,supply chain,virtual environment
Architecture,Virtual machine,Virtual reality,Object-oriented programming,Computer science,Information hiding,Object model,Real-time computing,Open system (systems theory),High-level architecture,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-1104-X
21
2.48
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wentong Cai11928197.81
Stephen J. Turner257751.48
Boon Ping Gan332934.25