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Foil 32 Time Management

From Overview of HLA and RTI DMSO Standards ARL Training Session IMT Dec 4 97 -- Dec 4 97. by Geoffrey Fox but selected by W. Furmanski from DMSO
Control advancement of federates along with federation time
  • Coordinated with object management services to support causal behavior across the federation
  • Designed to support federates with different ordering and delivery requirements
Interface functions include
  • Request current values of time
    • Federation time, federate's logical time (LT), lower bound time stamp (LBTS), minimum next event time
  • Set and request lookahead
  • Time advance request, next event and flush queue request, and grant
Time Management is critical difficulty in simulations as hard to make efficient -- subject of much research!

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