Performance of space communication protocol standards (SCPS) over ACTS satellite links

Author

Wang, Ru H. ; Horan, Stephen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Lamar Univ., Beaumont, TX, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

28 Nov.-2 Dec. 2005

Abstract

Space communication protocol standards (SCPS) has been developed for the reliable transfer of information in the future space and interplanetary Internet. Some work has been done on performance evaluation of SCPS by testing it over the low-rate channels and/or via an emulation test-bed. However, this work has been done by testing SCPS over the low rate channels and/or via an emulation test-bed. It is expected to have an evaluation of the complete SCPS protocol suite in a realistic space environment with a large bandwidth-delay product (BDP). In this paper, we present an experimental performance evaluation of SCPS suite, by comparing with standard TCP/IP, over the NASA´s Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) high speed links with data rate up to 4 Mb/s.

Keywords

Internet; satellite links; space communication links; telecommunication network reliability; transport protocols; NASA Advanced Communications Technology Satellite; TCP-IP; bandwidth-delay product; information transfer reliability; interplanetary Internet; performance evaluation; space communication protocol standards; Artificial satellites; Communication standards; Communications technology; Emulation; Internet; Protocols; Space technology; Standards development; TCPIP; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2005. GLOBECOM '05. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9414-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2005.1577641

Filename

1577641