Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) 101
(Room S320E)
26 Nov 18
8:30 AM
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10:00 AM
The Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol is a well-established IEEE standard for packet-level exchange of state information between entities in 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. Examples are provided using the open-source Open-DIS library for DIS v7 support, available in multiple programming languages. Ongoing work is included in WebRTC browser streaming, experimental implementation of DIS v8, plus Web-based implementations using 2D maps and X3D Graphics.