Data Distribution Services Performance Evaluation Framework

Abstract

DDS (data distribution service) is a middleware protocol and API standard for data transferring using a publisher-subscriber model from the Object Management Group (OMG). There exist various open source and commercial implementations of DDS standard that provides API and services for data distribution. Every developer claims that his implementation fits standard and provides the best possible parameters for data transferring. Three different implementations of DDS are compared to determine their usability and performance characteristics. This paper presents a testing framework that allows to evaluate different implementations in the same experiments and moreover to include another DDS.

Keywords

• Data distribution service
• test framework
• performance
• real-time publisher-subscriber