Integrating global simulation and training systems is hard. Legacy simulators use different standards for data, voice, and video, while modern architectures demand the use of cloud-based and distributed assets. New security requirements force integrators to suddenly become experts in information assurance.

How can systems integrators keep pace and limit integration time to meet today’s emerging threats? This requires training environments that can be quickly assembled and reconfigured from ready-made components and networks. Attend this tutorial to learn how Data Distribution Service (DDS) can ease integration, while also delivering National Security Agency (NSA) tested security for real-time systems over Local and Wide Area Networks (LAN/WAN).

DDS is a popular open standard managed by the Object Management Group (OMG). DDS is the connectivity framework that meets the stringent interoperability and real-time requirements of the defense industry, and is currently used in hundreds of deployed systems. DDS seamlessly stitches together legacy simulations, while adding humans and hardware in the loop, to create new secure LVC environments that can share real, augmented and virtual realities. These environments can run in a single lab or across multiple sites, with DDS response times matching  physics-speed.

This tutorial gives an introduction to the DDS and DDS Security standards. Learn how to use DDS Security to secure real-world Hardware-In-Loop (HIL) systems that already communicate over DDS to distributed LVC Simulations. The tutorial describes how to integrate DDS with existing simulation standards, an area where DDS can add Quality of Service (QoS). QoS brings new levels of real-time performance and scalability, adding robust security for individual topics of simulation data. The tutorial introduces you to a new Real-Time WAN Transport that extends DDS to enable secure, scalable, and high-performance communication over WANs, including public networks. The Real-Time WAN Transport uses UDP as the underlying IP transport-layer protocol to better anticipate and adapt to the challenges of diverse network conditions, device mobility, and the dynamic nature of WAN system architectures. Finally, the tutorial highlights recent LVC Simulation user experiences with DDS, and offers an overview of deployed systems using DDS in systems integration labs, and with LVC training simulators today.

This tutorial is intended for all audiences, though some familiarity with the basic principles of distributed computing is recommended.