Transfer Ownership - A Marvelous Idea That Is Sitting Out The War

摘要

One of the biggest improvements in simulation interoperability, fidelity, and the seamless integration of constructive and virtual simulators will occur when there is widespread implementation of the transfer ownership capability. This will also solve some basic realism problems when simulated aircraft and tanks are playing in a mixed virtual and constructive environment. No papers have been presented in recent years that lay out the wide range of benefits from using the transfer ownership capability. Specific technical issues that must be solved have not been identified and addressed by the simulation community as a whole. Guidelines to assist developers in implementing the transfer control function do not exits except as proprietary internal company documentation. This paper will present specific benefits, issues, and proposed solutions related to the transfer ownership capability. It will list various uses of transfer ownership and will present solutions to technical issues that must be overcome to make this capability viable. Transfer ownership was devised as a cornerstone of the concept of allowing various legacy models at different fidelity levels to interact in a realistic, "fair-play" manner. This vision has not been realized to date for a variety of reasons including funding. But also because the simulation community and warfighter have not been educated in the benefits to be derived from its use. Once they see the many benefits, they will begin to advocate its use to achieve the increased realism needed today in support of mission rehearsal and distributed mission training exercises.