Simulation, modeling, and evaluation of satellite-based multicasting protocols

Author

Thomas, Ryan W. ; Raines, Richard A. ; Baldwin, Rusty O. ; Temple, Michael A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Air Force Inst. of Technol., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

305

Abstract

Satellite-based mobile multicasting is a largely unexplored and untested area of networking. This paper examines the performance associated with applying distance vector multicast routing protocol (DVMRP) and on demand multicast routing protocol (ODMRP) to a six plane, 66-satellite low Earth orbit satellite (LEOs) constellation. ODMRP provides high quality-of-service performance at the expense of bandwidth efficiency. In contrast, DVMRP is over twice as efficient, with only a 10% lower quality-of-service. Both protocols are stressed under a single satellite failure. For DVMRP, this leads to greater end-to-end delay and slightly higher efficiency. ODMRP shows no significant change from the non-failure case.

Keywords

delays; digital simulation; mobile satellite communication; multicast communication; packet radio networks; quality of service; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; DVMRP; LEO; Mobile IP; ODMRP; QoS metric; bandwidth efficiency; distance vector multicast routing protocol; end-to-end delay; low Earth orbit satellite; mobility management; modeling; on demand multicast routing protocol; packet transmission; protocol speed; quality-of-service; satellite-based mobile multicasting; satellite-based multicasting protocols; simulation; single satellite failure; Computational modeling; IP networks; Lasers and Electro-Optics Society; Low earth orbit satellites; Mobile computing; Mobile radio mobility management; Multicast protocols; Network topology; Quality of service; Routing protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7005-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2001.956608

Filename

956608