DDS : A Solution to Network Centric Warfare

Abstract

The Open Management Group Data Distribution Service ( OMG DDS ) is a standard for publish-subscribe data distribution systems which is emerging as a specification for data exchange. It is a type of Message Oriented Middleware ( MOM ) that provides various functionalities such as portability and interoperability across many DDS implementations. In this, we create models which are platform independent. One platform can be mapped to others. These platforms can be in different programming languages. The existing issues with this technology include its inability to support request-reply services, file transfer and transaction processing. These issues can be considered as research work for future. Nowadays, there is always a need to exchange data among several communication machines instead of just a single machine. DDS caters this need by allowing data to be sent and received in a distributed environment. While doing so, the various security issues related to data integrity and loss of data are also taken into consideration. In this paper, Data Distribution Service ( DDS ) has been implemented to be used in network centric warfare, in three programming languages i.e Java, C and C++ in order to allow for cross language communication without any loss of data on a standalone mode .Data can also be exchanged between several machines in a distributed environment.