Delay-and disruption-tolerant networking (DTN): An alternative solution for future satellite networking applications

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1980-1997

  Caini, Carlo ^a   Cruickshank, Haitham ^b   Farrell, Stephen ^c   Marchese, Mario ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Delay and disruption tolerant networking (DTN); performance enhancing proxies (PEPs); quality of service (QoS); satellite communications; security

Indexed keywords

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK SECURITY; ORBITS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITES; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS; DELAY AND DISRUPTION; INTERMITTENT CONNECTIVITY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE ENHANCING PROXY; SATELLITE ARCHITECTURE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SECURITY;

DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKS;

EID: 80054986166     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2158378     Document Type: Article

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