DDS is a type of networking middleware. Its standards are managed by the Object Management Group (OMG). It is a bus-style architecture; a centralized node is not required. Communication is peer-to-peer and not centrally controlled.
Endpoints for communication are automatically discovered by DDS through a process called dynamic discovery. DDS uses a variant of the publish/subscribe model, where nodes on the bus announce what data they are publishing and what data they want to subscribe to.
DDS participants could be on the same machine or at the same factory or even spread over a wide area. It could be all of ...
