Abstract—The growing demand for 3D simulation techniques
in various application domains leads to more and more
specialized tools and complex frameworks. Between
homogeneous or inhomogeneous clients, data has to be
distributed and synchronized in centralized or decentralized
setups. Hardware/Software-in-the-Loop and Co-Simulation are
common tasks in virtual prototyping. Load balancing and
parallelization is necessary for computationally intensive
simulations. Spatially distributed developers and designers
collaborate in networked virtual environments. All these
different applications impose different requirements on the
data distribution and synchronization mechanism. In this
paper, we categorize distribution scenarios, their requirements
and according synchronization techniques. Four different
approaches with different key aspects are presented and
compared by means of a reference implementation and several
application examples. This overview shall enable the reader to
choose the approach best suited for his particular distribution
problem.
Index Terms—Data management, distribution, simulation,
synchronization.
The authors are with the Institute for Man-Machine Interaction of RWTH
Aachen University, Germany (e-mail: {hoppen, waspe, rast,
rossmann}@mmi.rwth-aachen.de).
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Cite:Martin Hoppen, Ralf Waspe, Malte Rast, and Juergen Rossmann, "Distributed Information Processing and Rendering for 3D Simulation Applications," International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 247-253, 2014.
