Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-7-2022
Abstract
Securing distributed device communication is critical because the private industry and the military depend on these resources. One area that adversaries target is the middleware, which is the medium that connects different systems. This paper evaluates a novel security layer, DDS-Cerberus (DDS-C), that protects in-transit data and improves communication efficiency on data-first distribution systems. This research contributes a distributed robotics operating system testbed and designs a multifactorial performance-based experiment to evaluate DDS-C efficiency and security by assessing total packet traffic generated in a robotics network. The performance experiment follows a 2:1 publisher to subscriber node ratio, varying the number of subscribers and publisher nodes from three to eighteen. By categorizing the network traffic from these nodes into either data message, security, or discovery+ with Quality of Service (QoS) best effort and reliable, the mean security traffic from DDS-C has minimal impact to Data Distribution Service (DDS) operations compared to other network traffic. The results reveal that applying DDS-C to a representative distributed network robotics operating system network does not impact performance.
DOI
10.1007/s11227-022-04770-3
Source Publication
The Journal of Supercomputing
Recommended Citation
Park, A. T., Peck, N., Dill, R., Hodson, D. D., Grimaila, M. R., & Henry, W. C. (2022). Quantifying DDS-cerberus network control overhead. The Journal of Supercomputing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-022-04770-3
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