Year
2019
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
Abstract
CubeSats, limited by size and mass, have limited functionality. These miniaturised satellites suffer from a low power budget, short radio range, low transmission speeds and limited data storage capacity. Regardless of these limitations, however, CubeSats have been deployed to carry out many research missions, for instance, gravity mapping and tracking air and marine navigation. One method of increasing their functionality and reducing their limitations is to form CubeSat networks, or swarms, where many CubeSats work together to carry out a mission. Nevertheless, due to given limitations of range, the network may still have intermittent connectivity and, accordingly, data communication becomes challenging in such a disjointed network where there is no contemporaneous path between source and destination. When the network is disjointed, the rate of dropped packets increases making the performance of traditional TCP/IP protocols inefficient.
Recommended Citation
Madni, Mohamed Atef Ali Rajab, Routing in CubeSat Networks: Protocols, Architectures and Standards, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, 2019. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/749
FoR codes (2008)
0906 ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, 0901 AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, 1005 COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.