Diving into the Data Plane of Delay Tolerant NetworksThis presentation details early research towards applying data plane programming and software defined networking (SDN) to delay tolerant networking (DTN). This involved using the Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors (P4) language to program the data plane to handle DTN bundles natively in hardware. The results presented include a proof of concept DTN Bundle Protocol (BP) translator network middlebox, the challenges of programming a data plane to process BP, a software-defined DTN (SDDTN) architecture, and potential future applications of SDDTN. It is demonstrated that SDN and the P4 language has high potential for improving the scalability of DTN networks, although further research must be done to enable this.
Document ID
20220014969
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Presentation
Authors
Dominick Ta (University of Washington Seattle, Washington, United States)
Stephanie Booth (Glenn Research Center Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
Rachel Dudukovich (Glenn Research Center Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
Date Acquired
October 4, 2022
Subject Category
Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command And Tracking