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Data-Centric Publish-Subscribe Communications

This section describes the formal communications model used by Connext DDS: the Data-Centric Publish-Subscribe (DCPS) standard. DCPS is a formalization (through a standardized API) and extension of the publish-subscribe communications model presented in Network Communications Models.

This section includes:

What is DCPS?

DDS Data Types, Topics, Keys, Instances, and Samples

DataWriters/Publishers and DataReaders/Subscribers

DDS Domains and DomainParticipants

Quality of Service (QoS)

Application Discovery

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