Communication Networks for Space
Schedule & Location
Date: Lecture/Tutorial Tue 13:15 - 15:45
Room: N3310
Start: 18 October 2022
Credits: 6 ECTS points - 3 SWS
VAK Number: 01-29-03-CNSp-V
This lecture is not meant for electrical engineering students, i.e. CIT, CMM and IKT students. If you study one of these programs, please check the lecture "'Communication Networks".
Content Overview
- Introduction into CommNets
- Traditional Internet: TCP/IP
- Bearer Technologies for IoT and WSN: Bluetooth and ZigBee, application examples
- Protocols for wireless sensor networks
- Delay-tolerant networks
- Opportunistic networks
- ComNets for space
- types of spacecraft and orbits and their effect on communication
- data types and quality-of-service requirements
- architecture of space networks, state of the art of national space operators
- bearer technologies: requirements for communcation links, PHY, MAC and convergence layers
- routing for space networks
- transport convergence/shim layer
- application layer
Additional Reading
J. Kurose/K. Ross: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach. 6th ed., Pearson Education, 2013
A. Förster: Wireless Sensor Networks. Wiley, 2016
J. Taylor: Deep Space Communications. Wiley, 2016