Title
Analysis of Bundle Throughput over LTP
Date Issued
08 February 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
University of Houston
Publisher(s)
IEEE Computer Society
Abstract
Despite the notable progress that has been achieved on long-haul radio and optical communications, which are expected to improve the data transfer rates of future space exploration missions, both scheduled and random link outages remain possible. To improve reliability, NASA's delay-tolerant networking (DTN) architecture offers the Bundle Protocol (BP) and the Licklider Transmission Protocol (LTP) that implement bundle custodial transfer and automatic repeat query retransmissions. We analyze the performance of these protocols considering the default flow control method of LTP, which limits the number of concurrent sessions. We derive the combined BP and LTP throughput and provide approximations for model parameters that are difficult to find exactly. Event-driven simulations suggest that our analysis is reasonably accurate under different channel conditions and protocol settings. The proposed model provides insight into the role of the channel conditions, the workload, and the choice of BPLTP protocol parameters on the performance of a reliable space link.
Start page
271
End page
274
Volume
2018-October
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones Ciencias de la computación
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85062844164
ISBN of the container
9781538644133
Conference
Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN: 43rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2018
Sponsor(s)
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The author would like to thank Gilbert Clark for his comments in the preparation of this contribution. This work was supported by an Early Career Faculty grant from NASA’s Space Technology Research Grants Program.
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