Fundamentals of Real-Time Distributed Simulation

Course Description

Distributed Simulation environments are cost-effective ways to conduct training, testing and systems analysis. Distributed Simulation can expand the availability of resources to more users and different sites and connect disparate systems together. The key to success in this field lies in a thorough understanding of all the influences on success and performance and the careful planning and consideration of all the elements that constitute the desired outcome.

The goal of this course is to provide a baseline understanding of the fundamentals of real time distributed simulation. Everyone involved in real-time simulation, from exercise planners and participants to software and content developers must understand the basic building blocks and underlying concepts in order to choose the right technologies to succeed.

This course will start with the basics then build upon these foundations to include advantages and disadvantages of different approaches and technologies, performance and development strategies as well as common misconceptions and errors.   The course will cover emerging Serious Games applications and show how these can be blended into a Distributed Simulation environment.

What You Will Cover

•  Introduction to Distributed Simulation

• DIS and HLA

• Terrain and Object Models in Simulation

• Management of Distributed Simulation

• VV&A

• Simulation Development Issues.  Common Mistakes and Mitigation Strategies

How You Will Benefit

• Describe the fundamental design, implementation issues associated with distributed simulation

• Choose the right distributed simulation technologies for your application

• Hands-on, real world distributed simulation experience

Course Materials

• Course participants will receive a notebook with slides from the course as well as full versions of the Acron 3D Modeller^TM Standard Edition and Acron SimX^TM for ESP