ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a generic approach to synchronizing federates and events within federation community networks. It deals with issues related to synchronization in federation community networks with alternative approaches for constructing federation communities and various architectures of federation community networks. The chapter presents a mechanism for supporting synchronization crossing the boundaries of interlinked federations. It provides an overview of federation communities and related issues. The chapter discusses existing work and analyzes the challenges. It analyses the algorithms for synchronizing Timestamp Order events crossing federation boundaries and proves the algorithms’ correctness. The chapter also presents the benchmarking experiments, which examine the correctness of the synchronization mechanism and evaluate its performance. It describes a generic synchronization mechanism that takes advantage of the Gateway approach to constructing federation communities. A large-scale High Level Architecture -based simulation can be constructed using a network of simulation federations to form a “federation community.”
