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Experimental Evaluation of TCP-Based DTN for Cislunar Communications in Presence of Long Link Disruption

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking volume 2011, Article number: 720671 (2011) Cite this article

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Delay/disruption tolerant networking (DTN) technology is considered a new solution to highly stressed communications in space environments. To date, little work has been done in evaluating the effectiveness and performance of the available DTN protocols when they are applied to an interplanetary Internet, especially in presence of a long link disruption. In this paper, we present an experimental investigation of the DTN architecture with a Bundle Protocol (BP) running over TCP-based convergence layer (TCPCL) protocol in a simulated cislunar communication environment characterized by a long link disruption. The intent of this work is to investigate the effectiveness of the TCPCL-based DTN protocol in coping with long link disruptions, through realistic file transfer experiments using a PC-based test-bed. The experiment results show that the DTN protocol is effective in handling a long link disruption experienced in data transmission accompanied by a cislunar link delay and a high BER. The performance of the DTN is most adversely affected by link disruption time in comparison to the effect of link delay and BER. For the transmissions with a very long link disruption of hours, the variations in goodput are nominal with respect to the change in cislunar link delay.

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  1. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215006, China

    Ruhai Wang & Jia Hou

  2. Phillip M. Drayer Department of Electrical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, 77710, USA

    Ruhai Wang & Xuan Wu

  3. Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China

    Qinyu Zhang

  4. NEC Laboratories Europe, NEC Europe Ltd., Kurfürsten-Anlage 36, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany

    Tarik Taleb

  5. Network Systems, Argon ST, San Diego, CA, 92121, USA

    Zhensheng Zhang

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Wang, R., Wu, X., Zhang, Q. et al. Experimental Evaluation of TCP-Based DTN for Cislunar Communications in Presence of Long Link Disruption. J Wireless Com Network 2011, 720671 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/720671

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