Publications Journal article · Delay-tolerant networks · 2019

Networking in Interstellar Dimensions: Communicating With TRAPPIST-1

Juan A. Fraire, Marius Feldmann, Felix Walter, Elena Fantino, and Scott C. Burleigh

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 1656–1665, 2019

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Abstract

The recent discovery of potentially habitable planets orbiting the TRAPPIST-1 system intensified interest in interstellar exploration. In these challenging mission concepts, communication protocols would need to cope with unprecedented signal propagation delays. In this paper, we propose and explore delay tolerant networking (DTN) technologies and analyze in a case study based on the TRAPPIST-1. Results suggests that DTN protocols features could become a valuable means to achieve data delivery in future interstellar networks.

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DOI 10.1109/taes.2018.2874149

BibTeX

@article{DBLP:journals/taes/FraireFWFB19,
  author  = {Juan A. Fraire and Marius Feldmann and Felix Walter and Elena Fantino and Scott C. Burleigh},
  title   = {Networking in Interstellar Dimensions: Communicating With {TRAPPIST-1}},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems},
  volume  = {55},
  number  = {4},
  pages   = {1656--1665},
  year    = {2019},
  doi     = {10.1109/taes.2018.2874149}
}

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