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Optimization of message delivery reliability and throughput in a DDS-based system with per-publisher sending rate adjustment

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Data distribution service (DDS) is a communication middleware that has been widely used in various mission-critical systems. DDS supports a set of attributes and quality of service (QoS) policies that can be tuned to guarantee important performance factors in mission-critical systems message delivery (communication), such as reliability and throughput. However, optimizing reliability and throughput simultaneously in a DDS-based system is challenging. Adjusting the publisher’s sending rate is a direct approach to control the performance of a DDS-based system, but to the best of our knowledge, only a few research have examined this approach. In this study, we proposed a novel algorithm that adjusts the sending rate of each publisher to optimize the message delivery reliability and throughput of a DDS-based system. We also developed a DDS-based system model and use the model to define topic-based reliability and throughput. According to our experimental results, the proposed algorithm achieves a system communication reliability of 99–99.99%, given three scenarios of different reliability issues (70–99.99% reliability). Most importantly, the proposed algorithm can slightly increase per-topic throughput while improving per-topic reliability.

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This study was partially supported by the National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan, under Grants 111-2221-E-008-061- and 111-2221-E-008-059-.

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    Ridlo Sayyidina Auliya, Chia-Ching Chen, Po-Ru Lin, Deron Liang & Wei-Jen Wang

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RSA was responsible for paper writing, algorithm design, paper survey, experiments, and analysis; C-CC was responsible for conceptualization and validation; P-RL was responsible for coding; DL was responsible for project supervision; W-JW: was responsible for conceptualization, algorithm design, paper review, and editing.

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Auliya, R.S., Chen, CC., Lin, PR. et al. Optimization of message delivery reliability and throughput in a DDS-based system with per-publisher sending rate adjustment. Telecommun Syst 84, 235–250 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-023-01045-x

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