Hla-federate Reproduction Procedures in Public Transportation Federations

This paper summarizes our conceptual and prototypical work related to the dynamic composition of heterogeneous distributed simulations using the High Level Architecture for Modeling and Simulation (HLA). Previous studies of the authors and within the HLA community have shown that federates other than of simulation type are feasible. The reproduction of federates during runtime (so-called "cloning") has been identified as basic dynamic pattern, allowing the creation or exchange of federates of the same or different type. The paper provides an overview of different cloning strategies within or external to a given federation and applies them to the public transportation domain. Finally, the potential of cloning strategies on the component (HLA: federate) level is described.