Everything about Data Distribution Service

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Data Distribution ServiceA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: MAD‐DDS: Memory‐efficient automatic discovery data distribution service for large‐scale distributed control networkInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: PatternsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: RDDS: A Real-Time Data Distribution Service for Cyber-Physical SystemsCited 120 times
5. Go sideways: Message-oriented middlewareA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Interface description languageA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• RDDS: A Real-Time Data Distribution Service for Cyber-Physical Systems

  Woochul Kang, Krasimira Kapitanova, Sang Hyuk Son · 2012 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 120 citations

• Obstacles in Data Distribution Service Middleware: A Systematic Review

  Ömer Köksal, Bedir Tekinerdogan · 2017 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 34 citations

• Fog-Based Data Distribution Service (F-DAD) for Internet of Things (IoT) applications

  Firat Karatas, Ibrahim Korpeoglu · 2019 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 32 citations

• An Optimized, Data Distribution Service-Based Solution for Reliable Data Exchange Among Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

  Jesús Rodríguez-Molina, Sonia Bilbao, Belén Martínez · 2017 · Sensors · 26 citations

• Hardware Acceleration of Data Distribution Service (DDS) for Automotive Communication and Computing

  Claudio Scordino, Angela Gonzalez Marino, Francesc Fons · 2022 · IEEE Access · 25 citations

• Integration of Data Distribution Service and distributed partitioned systems

  Marisol García-Valls, Jorge Domínguez-Poblete, Imad Eddine Touahria · 2018 · Journal of Systems Architecture · 20 citations

• Data Distribution Service-Based Interoperability Framework for Smart Grid Testbed Infrastructure

  Tarek Youssef, Ahmed Elsayed, Osama Mohammed · 2016 · Energies · 20 citations

• Formal Safety Assessment and Improvement of DDS Protocol for Industrial Data Distribution Service

  Jinze Du, Chengtai Gao, Tao Feng · 2022 · Future Internet · 17 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• MAD‐DDS: Memory‐efficient automatic discovery data distribution service for large‐scale distributed control network

  Williams‐Paul Nwadiugwu, Dong‐Seong Kim, Waleed Ejaz · 2023 · IET Communications · 11 citations

• Integrating Data Distribution Service (DDS) in Smart Traffic Systems: A Comprehensive Review

  Basem Al-Madani, Shihab Hasan, Amer Abualhassan · 2025 · Computer · 8 citations

• Container-Based Cloud-Edge-Device Collaborative Multi-Service Data Processing in Distribution Network

  Shuai Li, Xiangyu Wen, Yan Wen · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 8 citations

• An Intelligent Product-Driven Manufacturing System Using Data Distribution Service

  Chin-Te Lin, Hong-Ji Lu · 2024 · IEEE Access · 7 citations

• A centralized discovery-based method for integrating Data Distribution Service and Time-Sensitive Networking for In-Vehicle Networks

  Feng Luo, Yi Ren, Yanhua Yu · 2025 · Ad Hoc Networks · 5 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• PatternsIBM Redbooks · 2002
• Smart Computing and CommunicationMeikang Qiu · 2017
• Distributed user interfacesJosé A. Gallud, Ricardo Tesoriero · 2011
• Service Quality Of Cloudbased ApplicationsRandee Adams · 2013
• E-LogisticsStephen Pettit · 2016
• 📕New Rules of Sales and ServiceDavid Meerman Scott · 2014
• Fog and Edge ComputingRajkumar Buyya, Satish Narayana Srirama · 2018
• 📕Big-Data Analytics for Cloud, IoT and Cognitive ComputingKai Hwang, Min Chen · 2017

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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