Deploy standard
internets in low
latency remote
environments
(e.g., on other
planets)
Support dialog
across a network
of Internets
The Basic IPN Concept:
construct a
“Network of Internets”
Connect distributed
internets via an
interplanetary backbone
Long propagation delays
Backbone contact periods:
•
short relative to delay
•
possibly one-way
•
possibly separated by
days, weeks
•
cannot guarantee an
end-to-end path
Operations driven
by power, weight,
volume
Transaction sizes are
small compared to
bandwidth-delay product
High value data,
finite buffers