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SCPS-TP, TCP, and Rate-Based Protocol Evaluation

whitepaper The testing was performed over reasonably high data rates of up to 100 Mbps with delays that are indicative of near-planetary environments. Tests were performed at Glenn Research Center (GRC) to validate the operation of Space Communications...

Tags: bandwidth issues

[14 Jan 2008]

SCPS-TP, TCP and Rate-Based Protocol Evaluation for High Delay, Error Prone Links

whitepaper The testing was performed over reasonably high data rates of up to 100 Mbps with delays that are indicative of near planetary environments. This paper describes testing performed to validate operation of Space Communications Protocol Suite...

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

Multiple-Copy Routing in Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks

whitepaper There are many real networks that fall into this paradigm, for example, wildlife tracking sensor networks, military networks, inter-planetary networks, etc. Intermittently connected mobile networks are wireless networks where most of the time there...

Tags: switching, routing, schemes, flooding

[31 Aug 2007]

Multiple-Copy Routing in Intermittently Connected Mobile Networks

whitepaper There are many real networks that fall into this paradigm, for example, wildlife tracking sensor networks, military networks, inter-planetary networks, etc. Intermittently connected mobile networks are wireless networks where most of the time there...

Tags: schemes, routing, flooding, energy

[10 Aug 2007]

Photos: Google Earth showcases natural disasters

Photo Google Earth and the European Space Agency (ESA) are showcasing the planet with 130 satellite images added to the planetary prowler from ESA's satellite image library. Included are images of volcanic eruptions, dust storms and changing ice glaciers...

Tags: disaster, google, google earth, european

[17 Nov 2006]

Nasa sends robot to seek for life in the desert

News Nathalie Cabrol, a planetary scientist at Nasa Ames and the SETI Institute, said: "Our goal with this final investigation is to develop a method to create a real-time, 3D topographic 'map' of life at the microscopic level.

Tags: desert, nasa, robot

[11 Aug 2005]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Energy worries

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Energy worries

Comment The use of water and the creation of more oxygen could be a winner, but here I know of no studies trying to assess the impact of oxygen enrichment of our planetary atmosphere. Our oil reserves are being depleted and yet we have come up with no...

Tags: telecommuting, oil, energy crisis

[29 Jul 2004]

Scalable Real-Time Computing in the Solaris Operating Environment

whitepaper This planetary veil of sensors requires a wealth of real-time applications -- from monitoring hydrologic flow and air pollution to detecting small-scale nuclear tests and fallout, improving air safety, and predicting seismic and weather events.

Tags: sun solaris, air, sensors, demanding

[01 Mar 2004]

Fitting Selected Random Planetary Systems to Titius-Bode Laws

whitepaper Simple ‘‘solar systems’’ are generated with planetary orbital radii r distributed uniformly random in log r between 0.2 and 50 AU, with masses and order identical to our own Solar System. We find that this stability criterion and other ‘‘radius...

Tags: data compression, laws, stability, criterion

[24 Feb 2004]

Preparing for Planetary Defense: Detection and Interception of Asteroids on Collision Course with Earth

whitepaper As the Earth revolves around the Sun, it orbits through planetary debris left from the formation of the solar system. Then it looks at some of the technologies and methods for detecting, cataloguing, and tracking planetary debris objects that may...

Tags: astronomy, objects, defense, earth

[24 Feb 2004]

A Fiber Optic "Telescope" to Inner Space

whitepaper The oceanographic and planetary science communities are in a position to make major scientific and educational contributions by establishing a series of strategically-located state-of-the-art submarine observatories.

Tags: biology, planetary, educational, investigation

[24 Feb 2004]

Seismic Reflection Study of Upheaval Dome, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

whitepaper The origin of Upheaval Dome, in Canyonlands National Park of southeastern Utah, has been a topic of controversy among geologists and planetary scientists. The structure has long been thought to have been created by salt diapirism from the...

Tags: geology, dome, structure, images

[24 Feb 2004]

The North Atlantic Oscillation

whitepaper In the extratropics, teleconnections link neighboring regions mainly through the transient behavior of atmospheric planetary-scale waves. Simultaneous variations in weather and climate over widely separated points on earth have long been noted in...

Tags: telecom hardware, patterns, climate, atlantic

[24 Feb 2004]

Recent Advances in the Miniturization of Infrared Spectrometers

whitepaper Cambridge, MA) and shows the graphical user interface (GUI) and the measured output of the MicroSpec when looking at the flame from a lab burner fueled by MAPP gas (a mixture containing liquefied petroleum gas and methylacetylene-propadiene).NASA...

Tags: optical networking, interface, gas, output

[24 Feb 2004]

A Guide to SNARK

whitepaper It constitutes the deductive core of the NASA Amphion system, which composes software from components to meet users' specifications, e.g.to perform computations in planetary astronomy. SNARK, SRI's New Automated Reasoning Kit, is a theorem prover...

Tags: artificial intelligence, agenda, conclusion, reasoning

[24 Feb 2004]

SETI@home passes round hat for funding

SETI@home passes round hat for funding

News Anderson has asked SETI@home users to pay US$30 to subscribe to The Planetary Society (TPS) in order to ensure that the project can retain its sponsorship from the organisation. However, within a few weeks of making that comment, Anderson has done...

[14 Nov 2002]

Tech-crash threatens to take down SETI@home

Tech-crash threatens to take down SETI@home

News SETI@home's current sponsor list includes Sun Microsystems, The Planetary Society, Fujifilm, IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Quantum Corporation, Network Appliance and Informix. The future of SETI@home, an internet-based distributed computing...

[15 Oct 2002]

NASA mini-bots march on Mars

NASA mini-bots march on Mars

News The project involves insect-sized flying robots, called micro air vehicles, which NASA claims are ideal for planetary exploration because of their ability to hover rather than just fly. The project is part of NASA's "Planetary Exploration Using...

[22 Jan 2002]

The search for alien life continues on P2P

The search for alien life continues on P2P

News At the same time, the organisation has received undisclosed funding from One Cosmos Network and the Planetary society to step up its search for alien life. SETI@home records signals from space gathered by the world's largest telescope in Puerto Rico.

[19 Dec 2000]

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