Pulsar-based timing for an Interplanetary Internet Protocol
- Paper number
IAC-06-B3.1.04
- Author
Dr. William Marshall, Space Policy Institute, George Washington University, United States
- Coauthor
Ms. Jessy Cowan-Sharp, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Robbie Schingler, Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC), United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Paul Reilly, Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC), Ireland
- Year
2006
- Abstract
An extra-terrestrial Internet will be an important enabling technology for space exploration and settlement. Research is ongoing into Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN), such as those that will be required for deep space communications, and DARPA is exploring the feasibility of using X-ray pulsar signals as an absolute time stamp in these environments. This paper discusses the integration of such timestamps into the bundling protocols being developed by the DTN research group, and the particular requirements that it implies.
- Abstract document