Networking in Interstellar Dimensions: Communicating With TRAPPIST-1
Juan A. Fraire, Marius Feldmann, Felix Walter, Elena Fantino, Scott C. Burleigh · IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems · 2018
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.