NASA DTN Protocol: How Interplanetary Internet Works

First time accepted submitter GinaSmith888 writes "This is a deep dive in the BP protocol Vint Cerf developed that is the heart of NASA's Delay-Tolerant Networking, better known as DTN. From the article: 'The big difference between BP and IP is that, while IP assumes a more or less smooth pathway for packets going from start to end point, BP allows for disconnections, glitches and other problems you see commonly in deep space, Younes said. Basically, a BP network ? the one that will the Interplanetary Internet possible ? moves data packets in bursts from node to node, so that it can check when the next node is available or up.'"

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/FMZ74-dL1q4/nasa-dtn-protocol-how-interplanetary-internet-works

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