Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) 101
(Room S320A)
27 Nov 17
2:30 PM
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4:00 PM
This Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol is an IEEE standard for packet-level exchange of information between military simulations. DIS facilitates simulation interoperability through a consistent over-the-wire format for information, widely agreed upon constant enumeration values, and community consensus semantics. Anyone can obtain the IEEE-1278 standard and implement their own compliant, interoperable, DIS application. A large variety of tools and codebases simplify this effort, and enable multi-architecture integration of simulations using the DIS stand baseline. DIS focus begins with real-time, physics-based, entity-scale simulations, providing state update and interaction mechanisms which can scale to large virtual environments.
This tutorial is a “DIS 101” introduction for software implementers and an introduction to the DIS philosophy for simulation systems integrators.