Experimental evaluation of TCP-based DTN for cislunar communications in presence of long link disruption

Authors:
Ruhai Wang;Xuan Wu;Qinyu Zhang;Tarik Taleb;Zhensheng Zhang;Jia Hou
Affiliations:
School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China and Phillip M. Drayer Department of Electrical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX;Phillip M. Drayer Department of Electrical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX;Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China;NEC Europe Ltd., NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg, Germany;Network Systems, San Diego, CA;School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Venue:
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on opportunistic and delay tolerant networks
Year:
2011

Citing 22
Cited 1

The performance of TCP/IP for networks with high bandwidth-delay products and random loss

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
TCP extensions for space communications

Wireless Networks - Special issue: mobile computing and networking: selected papers from MobiCom '96
TCP-Peach: a new congestion control scheme for satellite IP networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
TCP westwood: end-to-end congestion control for wired/wireless networks

Wireless Networks
Congestion control for high bandwidth-delay product networks

Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A delay-tolerant network architecture for challenged internets

Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
TCP PACKET TRACE ANALYSIS

TCP PACKET TRACE ANALYSIS
InterPlaNetary internet: state-of-the-art and research challenges

Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Routing in a delay tolerant network

Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Using redundancy to cope with failures in a delay tolerant network

Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Erasure-coding based routing for opportunistic networks

Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Delay-tolerant networking
Multicasting in delay tolerant networks: semantic models and routing algorithms

Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Delay-tolerant networking
Performance evaluation and analysis of delay tolerant networking

MobiEval '07 Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on System evaluation for mobile platforms
Practical Routing in Delay-Tolerant Networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Study of a bus-based disruption-tolerant network: mobility modeling and impact on routing

Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Licklider transmission protocol (LTP)-based DTN for cislunar communications

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Delay-tolerant networking: an approach to interplanetary Internet

IEEE Communications Magazine
Transport protocols for Internet-compatible satellite networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
PETRA: performance enhancing transport architecture for Satellite communications

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
TP-planet: a reliable transport protocol for interplanetary Internet

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
On-board satellite "split TCP" proxy

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
An explicit and fair window adjustment method to enhance TCP efficiency and fairness over multihops Satellite networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Performance of DTN protocols in space communications

Wireless Networks

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

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.