Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking MACHETE Mode

TBMG-11359

10/01/2011

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To verify satisfaction of communication requirements imposed by unique missions, as early as 2000, the Communications Networking Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) saw the need for an environment to support interplanetary communication protocol design, validation, and characterization. JPL’s Multi-mission Advanced Communications Hybrid Environment for Test and Evaluation (MACHETE), described in ”Simulator of Space Communication Networks” (NPO-41373) NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 29, No. 8 (August 2005), p. 44, combines various commercial, non-commercial, and in-house custom tools for simulation and performance analysis of space networks. The MACHETE environment supports orbital analysis, link budget analysis, communications network simulations, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. As NASA is expanding its Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) capabilities to support planned and future missions, building infrastructure to maintain services and developing enabling technologies, an important and broader role is seen for MACHETE in design-phase evaluation of future SCaN architectures.

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"Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking MACHETE Mode," Mobility Engineering, October 1, 2011.
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Oct 1, 2011
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TBMG-11359
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English