Aggregation of DTN bundles for channel asymmetric space communications

Author

Zhiguo Wei ; Ruhai Wang ; Qinyu Zhang ; Jia Hou

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Soochow Univ., Suzhou, China

fYear

2012

fDate

10-15 June 2012

Firstpage

5205

Lastpage

5209

Abstract

Delay/disruption tolerant networking (DTN) is considered one of the most suitable technologies to handle challenging space communications. Aggregation of multiple DTN bundles within a data transport block for space communications has been in controversy for years. In this paper, we present an experimental investigation, using a PC-based testbed, of whether aggregation of multiple DTN bundles within a single Licklider transmission protocol (LTP) block has performance advantage over the default approach of “one bundle per block” for channelrate asymmetric cislunar communications.

Keywords

delay tolerant networks; space communication links; telecommunication channels; transport protocols; PC-based testbed; channel asymmetric space communications; channel-rate asymmetric cislunar communications; data transport block; delay-disruption tolerant networking; multiple DTN bundles aggregation; one bundle per block; performance advantage; single LTP block; single Licklider transmission protocol block; Aerospace electronics; Bit error rate; Delay; Internet; Protocols; Space vehicles; DTN; LTP; Space communication; bundle protocol (BP); channel asymmetry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1550-3607

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2052-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-3607

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2012.6364650

Filename

6364650