RTI-NG Performance in Large-Scale, Platform-Level Federations

摘要

The capability to simulate some elements of a large-scale conflict at the platform level is an essential requirement for both the staff-level training and Joint Experimentation simulation domains. For example, the capability to locate and destroy tactical ballistic missiles (TBMs), a platform-level asset, remains a difficult challenge for our forces. As such, the ability to provide simulations of these threats and the appropriate counter-measures for analysis and training is required. The RTI must be able to support such simulations in a distributed fashion. One such federation is the JSAF Federation, which is being utilized by U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) to support large-scale simulations using a non-standard networking infrastructure. Using the JSAF Federation and replacing the non-standard networking software with RTI-NG, experiments were conducted to determine the scalability of RTING for these types of federations. This paper discusses these experiments, their results and the insight they provide into this important axis of RTI performance.