The Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems (DDS) is an Object Management Group (OMG) standard for publish/subscribe designed to address the needs of a large class of mission- and business-critical distributed real-time systems and system of systems. The DDS standard was formally adopted in 2004 and in less than five years from its inception has experienced a swift adoption in a variety of application domains characterized by the need of distributing high volumes of data with predictable low latencies, such as, Radar Processors, Flying and Land Drones, Combat Management Systems, Air Traffic Management, High Performance Telemetry, Large Scale Supervisory Systems, and Automated Stocks and Options Trading. Along with wide commercial adoption the DDS Standard has been recommended and mandated as the technology for real-time data distribution by several key administrations worldwide such as the US Navy, the DoD Information-Technology Standards Registry (DISR) the UK MoD, and EUROCONTROL.

This two-part Tutorial will cover most of the key aspects of DDS so to ensure that you can proficiently start using it for designing or developing your next system. In brief this tutorial will get you jump-started into DDS.