Time management in the High Level Architecture

Time management is required in simulations to ensure that temporal aspects of the system under investigation are correctly reproduced by the simulatio n model. This paper describes the time management services that have been d efined in the High Level Architecture. The need for time management service s is discussed, as well as design rationales that lead to the current defin ition of the HLA time management services. These services are described, hi ghlighting information that must flow between federates and the Runtime Inf rastructure (RTI) software in order to efficiently implement time managemen t algorithms.