Author: Johannes Luethi and Steffen Grossmann
 Title: The Resource Sharing System: Dynamic Federate Mapping for
        HLA-based Distributed Simulation

    In: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed
        Simulation (PADS 2001), Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA, 15- 18 May, 2001.

Abstract:

Networks of workstations have become a popular architecture for
distributed simulation due to their high availability as opposed
to specialized multiprocessor computers. Networks of workstations
are also a well-suited framework for distributed simulation
systems based on the High Level Architecture (HLA). However, using
workstations in a distributed simulation system may eventually
effect the availability of computing resources for the users who
need their computers as working tools. Thus, for coarse grained
distributed simulation it may be desirable to let the users
control to what extent their workstations should participate in a
distributed simulation. In this paper, we present a resource
sharing system (RSS) that provides a client user interface on each
potentially participating workstation. With the RSS clients, users
of workstations can control the availability of their computer for
the HLA simulation federation. An RSS manager keeps track of
available computing resources and balances the participating HLA
federates among the available workstations.

Keywords: Fault tolerance, high level architecture, load balancing,
          network of workstations