A Discrete Event XML based Simulation Framework for System of Systems Architectures

System of systems (SoS) concept is essential in solving the issues in complex systems where there are heterogeneous independently operable systems. In order for these independent systems to establish an SoS, they need to understand each other through effective communication. Thus, there is a need for a common language which wraps the data that is sent and received from a system within an SoS. This paper presents the application of extensible markup language (XML) to represent data communicated among systems without underlying differences in hardware software of the individual systems. Moreover, since the operation of each system is asynchronous in nature, the entire SoS can be considered as an event driven system. This paper presents a simulation framework to simulate the structure of the systems in an event driven fashion and wraps the data with a common language. The DEVSJAVA software is used as the discrete event simulator. In addition, XML based encapsulation is created in the DEVSJAVA environment to in the SoS.