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Erasure coding has attracted the attention of space research community due to its potential to present an alternative or complementary solution to ARQ schemes. Typically, erasure coding can enhance reliability and decrease delivery latency when long delays render ARQ-based solutions inefficient. In this paper, we explore the benefits of erasure coding for file transfers over space Delay Tolerant Networks, using a generic end-to-end mechanism built on top of the Bundle Protocol that incorporates LDPC codes along with an ARQ scheme. The results reveal significant insights on the tradeoff among efficient bandwidth exploitation and delivery latency. We quantify the performance gains when optimal erasure coding is applied and investigate in what extent theoretically optimal performance is affected when suboptimal code rates are used. Beyond that, we highlight the ability of erasure coding to provide different QoS to applications, in terms of file delivery latency, by properly tuning the code rate.
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme ([FP7/2007-2013_FP7-REGPOT-2010-1, SP4 Capacities, Coordination and Support Actions) under grant agreement n° 264226 (project title: Space Internetworking Center-SPICE). This presentation reflects only the authors views and the Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
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Papastergiou, G., Bezirgiannidis, N., Tsaoussidis, V. (2012). On the Performance of Erasure Coding over Space DTNs. In: Koucheryavy, Y., Mamatas, L., Matta, I., Tsaoussidis, V. (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communication. WWIC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7277. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30630-3_23
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