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Alleviating Bundle Throughput Constriction for Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) Bundles with Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Authors:
Stephanie Booth
Alan Hylton
Rachel Dudukovich
Nadia Kortas
Blake LaFuente
Brian Tomko

Keywords: Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN); Software Defined Network (SDN); Interplanetary Overlay Network (ION); High-rate Delay Tolerant Networking (HDTN); Space Communications

Abstract:
A load-balancing technique is proposed, executed, and tested against a Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) implementation with well-known characteristics. This would prove that transparently inserting Software Defined Networking (SDN) to achieve load balancing without re-configuring the DTN portion is possible. In addition, two routes were taken to alleviate a DTN bottleneck threat. The first used a P4 networking switch. This manual load-balancing test will balance the incoming packets without the users at the end-points knowing that their original packet destinations and/or sources may have been changed. The second route utilized a High-rate Delay Tolerant Networking (HDTN) receiving node instead of the typical DTN implementation used. Bench-marking results of the DTN implementation receiving node and the HDTN receiving node will be compared.

Pages: 1 to 5

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2022

Publication date: April 24, 2022

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4480

ISBN: 978-1-61208-939-3

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from April 24, 2022 to April 28, 2022