Performance of multimedia rate control protocols in InterPlaNetary Internet

Author

Fang, Jian ; Akan, ÖZgür B.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

8

Issue

8

fYear

2004

Firstpage

488

Lastpage

490

Abstract

The communication requirements of the next generation space missions necessitate to address the challenges for the realization of the InterPlaNetary (IPN) Internet. The multimedia flows carrying audio and visual information, including planet images and scientific observations, will constitute significant portion of the traffic in the IPN Internet. In this letter, the effects of propagation delay, link errors, and blackouts on the throughput performance of multimedia rate control protocols are investigated in IPN Internet. The analytical observations and experimental results show that the existing multimedia rate control protocols are far from satisfying the IPN Internet communication requirements.

Keywords

Internet; delays; multimedia communication; protocols; space communication links; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; audio-visual information; blackouts; congestion control; interplanetary Internet; link errors; multimedia rate control protocols; planet images; propagation delay; space missions; traffic; Communication system control; Communication system traffic control; Equations; Internet; Planets; Propagation delay; Protocols; Spine; Streaming media; Throughput; Congestion control; IPN; InterPlaNetary; Internet; high propagation delay; multimedia rate control protocols;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2004.833844

Filename

1324668