Experience with delay-tolerant networking from orbit

International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking

Volumn 28, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 335-351

  Ivancic, W ^a   Eddy, W M ^a,b   Stewart, D ^a,b   Wood, L ^c,d   Northam, J ^d   Jackson, C ^d  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Verizon Federal Network Systems   (United States)

^c CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bundle Protocol; Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN); Internet; Satellite; UK DMC

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS; BUNDLE PROTOCOL; COMMAND AND CONTROL; DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKING; DISASTER MONITORING CONSTELLATIONS; DISRUPTION TOLERANT NETWORKS; EARTH IMAGES; GROUND STATIONS; HIGH-SPEED; IMAGING PAYLOADS; INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCES; INTERNET RESEARCH TASK FORCES; INTERPLANETARY INTERNET; LOW EARTH ORBITS; LOW-EARTH ORBIT; PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE; RESEARCH GROUPS; SARATOGA; SATELLITE PAYLOADS; SOUTH AFRICA; SPACE ENVIRONMENT; SPACE TESTS; STORE AND FORWARD; SURREY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY LTD; TRANSFER PROTOCOL; UK-DMC; UK-DMC SATELLITE;

EXPERIMENTS; INTERNET; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PACKET NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING; ROUTERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 78649256438     PISSN: 15420973     EISSN: 15420981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sat.966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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