• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.42-49
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• 2017

Delay- and Disruption-Tolerant Network (DTN) has been considered as a key technology to overcome main challenges in interplanetary communications such as an intermittent connectivity and high bit error rates. The lack of end-to-end connectivity between source and destination results in long and variable delays and data loss, hence the Internet Protocols cannot operate properly in such environments because it requires an end-to-end connectivity. The DTN, which utilizes 'store-and-forward' message passing scheme between nodes, can overcome the lack of end-to-end connectivity in Interplanetary Network (IPN). In this paper, DTN is applied to 3-hop relay IPN, where messages are transmitted from Earth ground station to Lunar lander through Earth satellite and Lunar orbiter. ONE simulator is used to reflect the real environment of IPN and an efficient resource management method are analyzed to guarantee the message delivery by optimizing a message TTL (Time to Live), buffer size and message fragmentation.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.89-95
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• 2024

This paper introduces an effective and convenient method for utilizing onboard memory space to process remote commands, telemetry, and interplanetary network protocol data in satellite onboard systems. By enhancing the doubly linked list data structure to store and make accessible variable-length communication protocol data either sequentially or at variable locations, the paper enhances memory capacity utilization. The concept of 'grape' is introduced into the doubly linked list data structure to manage variable-length data and its access, with performance verification conducted through its reference implementation. This novel approach to linked lists is termed 'grape.'

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.361-370
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• 2004

The DSN(Deep Space Network) measurement model for interplanetary navigations which is essential for precise orbit determination has been developed. The DSN measurement model produces fictitious DSN observables such as range, doppler and angular data, containing the potential observational errors in geometric data obtained from orbit propagator. So the important part of this research is to model observational errors in DSN observation and to characterize the errors. The modeled observational errors include the range delay effect caused by troposphere, ionosphere, antenna offset, and angular refraction effect caused by troposphere. Non-modeled errors are justified as the parameters. All of these results from developed models show about $10\%$ errors compared to the JPL's reference results, that are within acceptable error range.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.55-58
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• 2021

우주 네트워크는 고지연성, 저신뢰성 등 기존의 지상 네트워크와는 차별화된 특성을 가진다. 또한 높은 예산이 투입되는 우주 임무 특성상 지상 시험 시 발견되지 않은 소프트웨어 버그가 막대한 비용을 초래할 수 있다. 그러나 현재까지 우주 네트워크 환경에 특화된 소프트웨어 업데이트 관련 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 Asynchronous Management Protocol(AMP)을 기반으로 원격 소프트웨어 업데이트 프레임워크를 새롭게 제안한다. 해당 프레임워크는 Interplanetary Overlay Network(ION) 소프트웨어를 사용하여 프로토타입을 구현하였으며, 실제 업데이트 케이스를 적용하여 기능 및 실사용성을 검증하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.6A
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• pp.609-616
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• 2011

The Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN) is a network designed to operate effectively using the mobility and storage of intermediate nodes under no end-to-end guaranteed network. This new network paradigm is well-suited for networks which have unstable path and long latencies (e.g. interplanetary network, vehicular network). In this paper, we first found that each taxi has its own regularly visiting area and define this property as spatial regularity. We analyze 4000 taxi trace data in Shanghai and show the existence of spatial regularity experimentally. Based on a spatial regularity in urban environment, we present a new DTN routing method. We introduce a Weighted Center (WC) which represents spatial regularity of each node. Through the association with evenly distributed access points (APs) in urban environment, most of vehicles get their grid locations and calculate their WCs. Since our routing method only uses neighbors' WCs for building routing paths, it can be regarded as distributed and practical protocols. Our experiments involving realistic network scenarios created by the traces of about 1500 Shanghai taxies show that our routing method achieves the higher performance compared to ECT, LET by 10%~110%.