Experimental Investigation of CCSDS File Delivery Protocol (CFDP) over Cislunar Communication Links with Intermittent Connectivity

Author

Wang, Ruhai ; Shrestha, B.L. ; Wu, Xuan ; Tade, Erin ; Wang, Tiaotiao ; Wang, Xinbing

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1910

Lastpage

1914

Abstract

The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) file delivery protocol, also known as CFDP, is a new standard protocol designed to meet a comprehensive set of file transfer requirements in space communications, especially for deep space missions. However, the performance of CFDP in cislunar space has not yet been evaluated, although the protocol has been particularly developed for deep space communications. In this work, we discuss an experimental investigation of the core file-delivery operation of unreliable CFDP in cislunar space communications. Presented is an experimental performance evaluation of unreliable CFDP operating with reliable transmission control protocol (TCP) and reliable CDFP operating with UDP over the simulated cislunar communication link with intermittent link connectivity.

Keywords

protocols; space communication links; CCSDS file delivery protocol; Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems; cislunar communication links; deep space missions; file transfer; intermittent connectivity; space communications; transmission control protocol; Communication standards; Communication system control; Communications Society; Data systems; Internet; NASA; Performance analysis; Space missions; TCPIP; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2008. ICC '08. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2075-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2075-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2008.366

Filename

4533402