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Limitations of Internet Protocol Suite for Distributed Simulation the Large Multicast Environment
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Network Working Group M. Pullen
Request for Comments: 2502 George Mason University
Category: Informational M. Myjak
The Virtual Workshop
C. Bouwens
SAIC
February 1999
Limitations of Internet Protocol Suite for Distributed Simulation
in the Large Multicast Environment
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
The Large-Scale Multicast Applications (LSMA) working group was
chartered to produce documents aimed at a consensus based development
of the Internet protocols to support large scale multicast
applications including real-time distributed simulation. This memo
defines services that LSMA has found to be required, and aspects of
the Internet protocols that LSMA has found to need further
development in order to meet these requirements.
1. The Large Multicast Environment
The Large-Scale Multicast Applications working group (LSMA) was
formed to create a consensus based requirement for Internet Protocols
to support Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) [DIS94], its
successor the High Level Architecture for simulation (HLA) [DMSO96],
and related applications. The applications are characterized by the
need to distribute a real-time applications over a shared wide area
network in a scalable manner such that numbers of hosts from a few to
tens of thousands are able to interchange state data with sufficient
reliability and timeliness to sustain a three dimensional virtual,
visual environment containing large numbers of moving objects. The
network supporting such an system necessarily will be capable of
multicast [IEEE95a,IEEE95b].
Pullen Informational