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Abstract
Distributed network scheduling is the scheduling of future communications of a network by nodes in the network. This article details software for doing this onboard a spacecraft in a remote network. While prior work on distributed scheduling has been applied to remote spacecraft networks, the software reported here focuses on modeling communication activities in greater detail and including quality of service constraints. Our main results are based on a Mars network of spacecraft and include identification of a maximum opportunity of improving the traverse exploration rate by a factor of three; a simulation showing reduction in one-way delivery times from a rover to Earth from as much as 5 hours to 1.5 hours; a simulated response to unexpected events averaging under an hour onboard; and ground schedule generation ranging from seconds to 50 minutes for 15 to 100 communication goals.
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- Volume
- 42-156
- Published
- February 15, 2004
- Pages
- 1–17
- File Size
- 1.1 MB