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Interplanetary overlay network (ION) for long-delay communications with asymmetric channel rates

  • Ruhai Wang*
  • , Vivek Dave
  • , Bin Ren
  • , Ramakrishna Bhavanthula
  • , Qinyu Zhang
  • , Jia Hou
  • , Liulei Zhou
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Interplanetary Overlay Network (ION) is an implementation of delay/disruption tolerant networking (DTN) developed as infrastructure for space communications in interplanetary flight mission systems. To date, no work has been done in evaluating the effectiveness of ION when it is applied to an interplanetary Internet involving very long link delay and highly asymmetric channel rates. In this paper, we present an experimental evaluation of ION over a typical three-node interplanetary infrastructure in the presence of a long link delay, highly asymmetric channel rates and varying data loss rate. One major conclusion is that the hybrid of TCP and Licklider transmission protocol (LTP) convergence layer protocols has significant goodput advantage over other protocol options as the ratio of data channel rate to ACK channel rate increases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2011
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Print)9781612842332
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
ISSN (Print)0536-1486

Keywords

  • CLP
  • DTN
  • ION
  • Overlay networks
  • bundle protocol (BP)
  • channel-rate asymmetry
  • interplanetary Internet

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