Subscribe and Translation Performance in the WISE - SBML Server for MSDL and C - BML

The Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML) as currently implemented requires that interoperating Command and Control (C2) and Simulation systems implement an interface to a Web service, using a clearly defined schema, to propagate Orders and Reports to participating systems. GMU and Saab have been collaborating on a robust parsing publish/subscribe server that can translate among semantically-equivalent schemata. This capability was used for the NATO MSG-085 final demonstration and served well, enabling interoperation of clients that were built for three different schemata (the server is capable of a fourth, C-BML "full", but no client had been programmed to use it). This paper reports on our experience in the MSG-085 final demonstration and our work since then to improve the performance/throughput of both the translation and publish/subscribe functions of the server.