Protocol Data Units
The current version (DIS 6) defines 67 different PDU types, arranged into 12 families. Frequently used PDU types are listed below for each family. PDU and family names shown in italics are included in present draft DIS 7.
- Entity information/interaction family - Entity State, Collision, Collision-Elastic, Entity State Update, Attribute
- Warfare family - Fire, Detonation, Directed Energy Fire, Entity Damage Status
- Logistics family - Service Request, Resupply Offer, Resupply Received, Resupply Cancel, Repair Complete, Repair Response
- Simulation management family - Start/Resume, Stop/Freeze, Acknowledge
- Distributed emission regeneration family - Designator, Electromagnetic Emission, IFF/ATC/NAVAIDS, Underwater Acoustic, Supplemental Emission/Entity State (SEES)
- Radio communications family - Transmitter, Signal, Receiver, Intercom Signal, Intercom Control
- Entity management family
- Minefield family
- Synthetic environment family
- Simulation management with reliability family
- Live entity family
- Non-real time family
- Information Operations family - Information Operations Action, Information Operations Report
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