Douglas D. Hodson

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

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About

Douglas D. Hodson is a leading researcher in distributed real-time systems and middleware security, with a particular focus on the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard. His work addresses the critical challenge of securing communication in distributed device networks—systems upon which both private industry and military operations increasingly depend. Hodson’s major contributions center on the development and evaluation of DDS-Cerberus, a novel security layer designed to protect the middleware that connects disparate systems from adversarial attacks. His research provides rigorous performance analysis, quantifying both ticketing performance and network control overhead to ensure that security enhancements do not compromise real-time operational requirements. With his most-cited papers each garnering 4 citations, Hodson’s work is foundational for researchers and engineers seeking to balance robust security with the low-latency, high-reliability demands of real-time and embedded platforms. By systematically testing and analyzing DDS-Cerberus, he has laid essential groundwork for deploying secure, scalable publish-subscribe architectures in production environments, from small embedded systems to large-scale defense networks.