Tomasz Kaczorek
supervisor: Marek Nałęcz
DIS is a long standing, widely adopted IEEE standard for conducting military simulations. Due to ever growing popularity of international wargames and quickly evolving arms trade the question arises: Has this 20 year old protocol stood a test of time? To verify this statement a high fidelity simulator of a modern air defense radar has been proposed. It's primary objective is to determine if the scope of exchanged information is sufficient to reliably model radar echo signals. As a consequence, necessary extensions both to protocols and to datasets required to be supplied by other means will be proposed. Further considered factors include the effects of network unreliability (dropping or reordering messages), dead reckoning usage (which may lead to differences in calculated position depending on the internal refresh and smoothing rates), intentional obfuscation of technical parameters by other participants or desynchronization. A substantial part of the research will be related to creating a simulation tools which enable testing constructed hypotheses, including the whole RES. The planned software architecture is highly modular to allow to swap different components in the processing chain and examine their influence on the fidelity of simulation.