Common Research Areas
When we communicate 'off-planet' to other locations in space, many of the technological
challenges are quite similar to those that are being encountered as the Earthıs Internet
evolves into the untethered era. Similarities include:
- Generally high bandwidth-delay products
- Possible data loss due to bit-errors and/or transient link outages
- Potentially asymmetric data rates
- Power constrained end systems
- Episodic/disjoint connectivity
- Networks may need to be self-organizing
- Channels often periodically unidirectional
- Need for progressive/selectable reliability
- Need for store-and-forward delivery
- Ultra high bandwidth-delay product (typically >> transaction size)
- 'Ping-pong of bursts' replaces streaming