COURSE OUTLINE

1. Introduction

• What is the current state of the DoD networked simulation industry?
• What is the DIS Protocol?
• What is an Entity?
• What is an Event?

2. Network Technology Review

• Typical DIS/HLA Network Protocols, Media & Topologies
• WAN Routing and Bridging Considerations
• Unix and Windows Network Sockets
• LAB: UDP Datagram & Multicast Programs Using Sockets

3. Core DIS Concepts and Implementations

• Basic Requirements for DIS Applications
• Representing Networked Objects: Entity State and Event Communications
• DIS Applications: System Architectures and Examples
• LAB: Implement And Experiment With DIS Data Logger And Playback Software

4. Spatial Model Utilization and DIS Implementations Issues

• Coordinate Systems used in DIS Simulations
• The SEDRIS Spatial Reference Model
• Dead Reckoning: Making large-scale simulations possible!
• LAB: Implement A DIS Data Visualization Program

5. Entity Representation Using the DIS Protocol

• Maintaining a Stable Distributed Entity
• Aggregate Representations in DIS: Interfacing to the constructive world
• Life-Form Representations
• LAB: Implement And Experiment With DIS Entity-based Virtual Simulation Software
• Physical Interactions: Collisions between objects

6. Combat Modeling and Munition Servers in DIS

• Warfare Interactions: Simulating weapons effects & damage modeling
• LAB: Adding Collisions & Munitions Interactions
• Articulation and Attached Parts within DIS Representations
• LAB: Add Articulated (Moveable) Parts To Your Entity
• Attached Entity Representations and Ownership Transfers in DIS
• Supporting HLA Servers and Interfaces to HLA Ownership Management

7. Visual Systems

• Visualization in DIS
• Techniques and Tricks to Correct DIS Visualization Artifacts
• Visual Database and 3D Modeling Issues

8. Simulated Communications & Electromagnetic Emissions

• Distributed Emission Regeneration: DIS Electronic Warfare
• The DIS Radio Communications Protocol
• IFF/ATC/NAVADS Representations
• LAB: Working With Streaming Audio In A DIS Simulation

9. Synthetic Environment

• Synthetic Environment Protocol Family: Environment Servers

10. Simulation Management (SIMAN)

• SIMAN Concepts: Reliable Simulation Management
• LAB: Working With Simulation Management Applications

11. Special Purpose DIS Protocol Mechanisms

• DIS Live Entity (LE) Protocol: Bandwidth Efficiency for Range Applications
• Distributed Time Management
• Event Bundling
• XML-based DIS Protocol Packets
• Effective Utilization of Multicast Communications

12. DIS/HLA Integration and Migration Issues

• DIS Network Interface Unit (NIU) Software Choices and Considerations
• Explore DIS to HLA interface strategies with an eye to future technologies
• LAB: Working With DIS/HLA Gateway Applications
• HLA Federation Requirements in Support of Gateways to DIS

13. What’s happening with the new dis version (IEEE 1278.1-200X)?

• Numerous revisions to the standard that improves performance and supports more sophisticated simulations