Design and Simulation of a Mobile Ad-hoc Network in HLA Environment

This paper presents a generalized design for MANET simulations to support any kind of widespread adoption, and standardized to allow universal interoperability, along with flexibility to permit runtime extension of its ontology. Traditional network simulation models often lack these desirable properties. IEEE’s standard 1516 for simulation and modeling fulfill the need for a standard of the kind that has these desirable properties. MANET simulations always require simulated environment provided by some tools like OMNET, OPNET and NS2. Making such simulations HLA compliant, HLA Federation rule 3 depicts need of direct interfacing of federates with RTI. However, HLA doesn’t address how this interfacing will be done. Proposed interface between MANET nodes and RTI is provided; each MANET node present in the OMNET is wrapped by the HLA layer. This approach will be incredibly beneficial for the researchers those are designing HLA based simulations in which MANET plays an active role and performance of MANET may affect overall simulation results e.g. mobile radar and disaster management simulations. Key-Words: HLA, OMT, RTI, MANET