it is a interesting topic. ietf protocols may be extended to space.
Jiankang Yao
From: Abdussalam Baryun
Date: 2013-12-28 06:31
To: l(_dot_)wood(_at_)surrey(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk
CC: mcr+ietf(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Chang'E 3
I was discussing/commenting on the subject as the thread did about using space
internet protocols on satellites, still no standards for space.
AB
On Friday, December 27, 2013, wrote:
AB
The Moon is arguably a satellite of Earth, but the distances are different from
LEO and GEO. That affects TCP performance.
TCP was designed with geostationary satellite hops in mind - see eg RFC829. I
use TCP across geostationary satellites daily.
I back up my statements with experience and references. What do you back yours
with? Why is UDP inefficient?
Lloyd Wood
http://about.me/lloydwood
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From: Abdussalam Baryun [abdussalambaryun(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 27 December 2013 06:01
To: Wood L Dr (Electronic Eng)
Cc: mcr+ietf(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Chang'E 3
So if TCP has problems then MPTCP has problems then they may not be preferred
for that satellite networking. For LEO SATNETs also there are problems for
using TCP. The UDP is a good solution in general but not efficient, but always
I think the SATNETs may need some special internet transport protocols because
they are having more dynamics in the net's lower layers.
AB
AFAIK vanilla ftp/TCP has (only?) been used on CHIPsat from LEO, but that did
not have much data to transfer.
We designed http://saratoga.sf.net with the idea of a continuous UDP stream of
data from Pluto in mind...
Lloyd Wood
http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/
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Abdussalam Baryun [abdussalambaryun(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com<javascript:;>]
Sent: 26 December 2013 16:40
To: Michael Richardson
Cc: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org<javascript:;>
Subject: Chang'E 3
Transport protocol for satellites depend on the applications, the network
dynamics, links and transmission channels. IMO the use of MPTCP for Back2Earth
may not be the best option making the communication complex, not sure why did
you hope to use it with this project.
AB