Communication technologies and architectures for space network and interplanetary internet

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 881-897

  Mukherjee, Joyeeta ^a   Ramamurthy, Byrav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep Space Network; Delay Tolerant Networking; Interplanetary Internet

Indexed keywords

COMMON STANDARDS; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; DEEP SPACE NETWORKS; DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKING; INTERPLANETARY INTERNET; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SPACE EXPLORATIONS; SPACE NETWORKING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; INTERNET; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SPACE RESEARCH;

DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKS;

EID: 84877584162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2012.062612.00134     Document Type: Article

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