End-to-End Disruption-Tolerant Transport Protocol Issues and Design for Airborne Telemetry Networks

Abstract

Networks of airborne nodes provide unique challenges to end-to-end communication, in particular due to the highly dynamic topology and time-varying connectivity of high velocity nodes, and unreliability of the wireless communication channel. This paper explores the issues and presents a design for a domain-specific transport protocol targeted to multihop network that interconnects high-velocity airborne nodes with the telemetry application of returning sensor data with high reliability.