Richard Dill

U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

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Richard Dill is a leading researcher in secure, real-time distributed systems, with a primary focus on the Data Distribution Service (DDS) middleware. His major contributions center on the design and rigorous evaluation of DDS-Cerberus, a novel security layer that protects critical publish-subscribe communication from adversarial attacks. Dill’s work is foundational for understanding the performance trade-offs of integrating security into high-stakes environments, including military and industrial control systems. His most-cited papers, including "DDS-Cerberus: Ticketing Performance Experiments and Analysis" (2021) and "Quantifying DDS-Cerberus Network Control Overhead" (2022), each with 4 citations, provide the first detailed benchmarks of ticketing-based authentication and its associated network overhead. By quantifying the cost of security without sacrificing real-time constraints, Dill has enabled safer deployment of DDS in embedded and production systems. His research is essential for engineers and academics working to harden middleware against cyber threats while maintaining deterministic performance.