Multimedia communication over HLA/RTI

This paper presents a generic solution for multimedia communication based on simplified Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) over High level architecture/Run-time Infrastructure (HLA/RTI) in distributed simulation environment. It can support bilateral/multilateral multimedia transmission for high volume audio, video, image and text data. The multimedia communication FOM/SOM is designed and a multimedia communication prototype system is constructed. Experiments show that the scheme can meet the requirements for real-time transmission and high communication efficiency. Multimedia communication has already been applied in an HLA-compliant complex distributed simulation system.