Experience with Delay-Tolerant Networking from orbit

2008 4th Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems - Proceedings, ASMS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 173-178

  Ivancic, Will ^a   Eddy, Wesley M ^a   Stewart, Dave ^a   Wood, Lloyd ^b   Holliday, Peter ^b   Jackson, Chris ^c   Northam, James ^c  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c SURREY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bundle; Delay Tolerant Networking; DTN; LEO; Low Earth orbit; Reliability; Saratoga; Space; Timestamps

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; HTTP; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERNET; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; ORBITS; PACKET NETWORKS; RELIABILITY; SATELLITES; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BUNDLE; DELAY-TOLERANT NETWORKING; DTN; LEO; LOW EARTH ORBIT; SARATOGA; SPACE; TIMESTAMPS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 57849096264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASMS.2008.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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