Security and Performance Trade-offs for Data Distribution Service in Flying Ad-Hoc Networks

This paper focuses on the data distribution service (DDS) middleware and its publish/subscribe logic - a topic that has recently regained popularity in both academia as well as industry. DDS is a well-known approach based on publish-subscribe logic. Therefore, only brief introduction of the issue is given followed by practical evaluation of current, available and real implementations from the security and performance point of view. The analysis and evaluation is performed to aid comparison of competing DDS implementation, and thus could serve well as an input to decision-making about which of these solutions is best suited for a given situation. Finally, the practical performance evaluation is performed via several different scenarios to effectively compare the currently most-used DDS implementations.