From the Far Side of the Moon: Delay/DisruptionTolerant Networking Communications via Lunar Satellites

Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Networking(DTN) originated from research on Interplanetary Internet and still today space applications are the most important application field and research stimulus. This paper investigates DTN communications between the Earth and the far side of the Moon, by means of a lunar orbiter acting as relay. After an introductory part, the paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the DTN performance that can be achieved on the identified communication scenario. The focus is on the evaluation of the stateof-the-art ability of Interplanetary Overlay Network(ION), the NASA DTN implementation of Bundle Protocol(BP) and Contact Graph Routing(CGR), to meet the many challenges of the space communication scenario investigated(and more generally of a future interplaynetary Internet): intermittent links, network partitioning, scarce bandwidth, long delays, dynamic routing, handling of high priority and emergency traffic, interoperability issues. A study of security threats and Bundle Security Protocol(BSP) countermeasures complete the work.The many results provided, confirm the essential role of DTN in future space communications.

Efficient Broadcast Retransmission Based on Network Coding for InterPlaNetary Internet

In traditional wireless broadcast networks,a corrupted packet must be retransmitted even if it has been lost by only one receiver.Obviously,this is not bandwidth-efficient for the receivers that already hold the retransmitted packet.Therefore,it is important to develop a method to realise efficient broadcast transmission.Network coding is a promising technique in this scenario.However,none of the proposed schemes achieves both high transmission efficiency and low computational complexity simultaneously so far.To address this problem,a novel Efficient Opportunistic Network Coding Retransmission(EONCR)scheme is proposed in this paper.This scheme employs a new packet scheduling algorithm which uses a Packet Distribution Matrix(PDM)directly to select the coded packets.The analysis and simulation results indicate that transmission efficiency of EONCR is over 0.1,more than the schemes proposed previously in some simulation conditions,and the computational overhead is reduced substantially.Hence,it has great application prospects in wireless broadcast networks,especially energyand bandwidth-limited systems such as satellite broadcast systems and Planetary Networks(PNs).

Relay Scheme Based on Distributed Luby Transform Codes for InterPlaNetary Internet

Distributed Luby Transform （DLT） codes have been proposed to improve the robustness and system throughputs for multisource single-sink networks by exploiting the benefits of Network Coding （NC） at a single relay. All the proposed schemes such as the DLT and Soliton-Like Rateless Coding （SLRC） have attempted to maintain Robust Soliton Distribution （RSD） or Soliton-Like Distribution （SLD） for the output data at the relay. This rzsult in some source symbols to be discarded, thereby degrading the throughput. In this paper, we have proposed a novel method called the Full DLT （FDLT） coding scheme to be applied in the InterPlaNetary （IPN） Internet scenario comprising two sources and one relay The aim of the proposed scheme is to fully utilise the source symbols so as to reduce the overheads and improve energy efficiencies at the sources while maintaining low overhead at the relay. In addition, almost no buffer is needed in the proposed scheme so the relay can have limited storage space, and the proposed scheme is resilient to the churn rates of the nodes. The simulation results have shown that the proposed scheme outperforms the aforementioned schemes with respect to source overheads and total overhead in addition to preserving the benefits of NC and LT codes.

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