ISIS Technical Report

Event-driven design is fundamental to developing resilient, responsive, and scalable reactive systems as it supports asynchrony and loose coupling. The OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) is a proven event-driven technology for building data-centric reactive systems because it provides the primitives for decoupling system components with respect to time, space, quality-of-service, and behavior. DDS, by design, supports distribution scalability. However, with increasing core count in CPUs, building multicore-scalable reactive systems remains a challenge.

This paper describes a real-time event-based system to distribute and analyze high-velocity sensor data collected from a soccer game case study used in the DEBS 2013 Grand Challenge. Our approach uses the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) for data dissemination and we combine it with algorithms to provide the necessary real-time analytics. We implemented the system using the Real-Time Innovations (RTI) ConnextTMDDS implementation, which provides a novel platform for Quality-of-Service (QoS)-aware distribution of data and real-time event processing.