Communication Relay Service for Deep Space Exploration: Evolution of Space Communication Relay Networking Concept 


Vol. 44,  No. 12, pp. 2199-2208, Dec.  2019
10.7840/kics.2019.44.12.2199


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  Abstract

Efficiency and reliability are the key element of data transmission between deep space explorer and ground station. Mars orbiters have the responsibility of relaying the data from rovers on Martian surface in order to forward them to ground station. Also lunar communication relay orbiter is necessary when a lunar lander lands and explorers on the far side of the Moon since there is no direct visual connectivity from Earth. Recently delay-tolerant networking technology is considered as a adaptable way to enable communication relay potentially in the environment of long haul delay, high bit error rate and intermittent connectivity in deep space missions. Space packet protocol standard is retained as a configuration of space communications and will not be replaced completely by another technology in near future as well as it is being used by international space agencies as deep space communications services. In this paper, authors review the technology of communication relay in deep space missions carried out so far with respect to the space packet protocol standard and the delay-tolerant networking technology, and propose a way to mitigate an impact that happens when the communication relay technology moves to delay-tolerant networking from the historical space link communication standard.

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[IEEE Style]

C. H. Koo and H. Kim, "Communication Relay Service for Deep Space Exploration: Evolution of Space Communication Relay Networking Concept," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 2199-2208, 2019. DOI: 10.7840/kics.2019.44.12.2199.

[ACM Style]

Cheol Hea Koo and Hyungshin Kim. 2019. Communication Relay Service for Deep Space Exploration: Evolution of Space Communication Relay Networking Concept. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 44, 12, (2019), 2199-2208. DOI: 10.7840/kics.2019.44.12.2199.

[KICS Style]

Cheol Hea Koo and Hyungshin Kim, "Communication Relay Service for Deep Space Exploration: Evolution of Space Communication Relay Networking Concept," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 2199-2208, 12. 2019. (https://doi.org/10.7840/kics.2019.44.12.2199)

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