Design of a Satellite Cluster System in Distributed Simulation

This article presents the design and development of a satellite cluster system that supports an in-terfederation communication in High Level Architecture (HLA)–compliant distributed simulation. The interfederation communication enables the execution of a complex, large-scale cluster system of distributed satellites that share the dispersed data assets among satellite components collaboratively. After a brief review of the HLA bridge for interfederation communication, the authors discuss the design issues related to a satellite cluster system that provides cluster management, interfederation communication, and communication data management. They analyze system performance and scal-ability for centralized and decentralized configurations. The empirical results on the heterogeneous OS distributed system indicate that the satellite cluster system is effective and scalable due to the use of interfederation communication and the reduction of data transmission.