Modeling of the HLA-based simulation system

High Level Architecture is the IEEE standard 1516 to build a large scale distributed virtual environment over the Internet. This paper proposes a Colored-Timed Petri Net(CTPN) model to analyze and design an HLA-based simulation, called federation. The proposed model aims to assist the Federation Development and Execution Process(FEDEP) to facilitate the process of creating a federation. The paper strictly follows the HLA specification to analyze and develop the proposed model so that it can later become a template for the designer to develop a federation. With the developed CTPN model, a system developer can modularly design a federation by cost effective method. At the end of this paper, a demo game is developed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed model.