Application in Military Equipment of Our Country Based on TENA
Architecture
Z.R. WU & M.Q. CHEN & W.N. CUI
Department of Information Engineering, Academy of Armored Forces Engineering, Beijing, China
Keywords:
Simulation System; TENA; Architecture
Abstract. Currently, there are many independent and closed "chimney" simulation systems in some
range training systems, which is not only a waste of resources but incompatible with other systems
well. In view of this situation, the paper focused on using of the testing and training architecture
(TENA) that US developed to make improvements. According to the characteristics of TENA's
architecture, the paper summarizes the framework to adapt the domestic simulation systems. Finally,
the conclusion shows that it can indeed improves the performance of the system using TENA in the
domestic simulation systems.
1 INTRODUCTION
Architecture is a part of universal project. If it has not overall architecture, any new developed
system will become an individual which a little relation with other systems. Thus it will produce
many chimney systems. Architecture is the foundation and key of the virtual systems. Currently, the
virtual system architecture has been gradually moving from a centralized, closed to a distributed,
open, interactive development. Making more efficient to use of range resources, improve joint
testing and training capabilities to minimize the costs of range operation in future.
The US military launched a FI2010 (Foundation Initiative 2010) project, the goal is to build
architecture and technical support that logic range provided to meet the military needs of test and
training in the coming decades. FI2010 engineering group draw a lot of simulation architecture
which defines the TENA. The purpose is to give the US military test and training ranges and their
users to provide public architecture, and to make the variety of geographically distributed, pilot
training resources on separate functions (including equipment platform, range instrumentation,
simulation systems and a variety of commands and control systems, etc.) to combined to form an
integrated environment to realistic, economical and efficient way to complete the joint testing and
training mission NCW required .
2 TENA RESEARCH
TENA (Test and Training Enabling Architecture) is proposed by US military based on HLA
(High Level Architecture) and makes extension and provides testing and training required more
specific functions. it can be considered a superset of HLA. Its purpose is to meet the specific needs
of testing and training areas.
TENA is designed to use a large-scale, distributed, real-time integrated environment for remote
testing and simulation, including the complete test, training, simulation and high-performance
computing technology which makes equipment in different areas to use a unified architecture. Now
range building has many cases of "chimney" systems. They are suitable for different sensors,
networks, protocols, hardware and software. If you want to use the current range resources for
military training more efficiently, this situation must be changed. Future testing and training
systems need to integrate complex systems range.
TENA overcomes the situation that builds "chimney" system and achieves ranges resources
interoperability, reuse, combined which makes between the simulation of weapons and troops
distributed around the world to affect each other to form a logic range of testing and training.
International Conference on Education, Management and Computing Technology (ICEMCT 2015)
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