TCP-Planet: A Reliable Transport Protocol for InterPlaNetary Internet
White Papers For this goal, the challenges posed by the InterPlaNetary Internet need to be addressed. Current TCP protocols have very poor performance in the InterPlaNetary Internet which is characterized by extremely high propagation delays, link errors...
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I can think of no other reason for Godfather of the Internet Vint Cerf to spend so much time thinking about how to extend the Internet across interplanetary distances. The first test of the proposed IPN -InterPlaNetary internet -- will come in 2003...
[May 25, 2001, 17:50]
Nasa uses spacecraft to test interplanetary network
News This image shows an artist's concept of the interplanetary internet This new networking system, an outgrowth of Cerf's Interplanetary Net project, can be layered on top of TCP/IP, the protocol that today's internet uses.
[November 20, 2008, 15:38]
You've got mail - from Mars
News ET may not be able to phone home anytime soon, but the lovable alien may be able to send e-mail -- if a draft proposal released this week for an interplanetary Internet takes flight. Described as a "work in progress," the proposal to the Internet...
[May 25, 2001, 9:49]
Vint Cerf: Launching an interplanetary Web
News In a recent interview, Cerf talked about plans for an interplanetary Internet, the dot-com malaise, and whether Web-surfing refrigerators are really something we need. All of those variations caused us to design a new set of protocols, in addition...
[June 21, 2001, 10:21]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If I were 30 again, I’d be working on interplanetary stuff" - so quotes Vint Cerf, one of the godfathers of the Internet as reported on our sister site silicon.com. As it happens, he’s 62 - and working on interplanetary stuff.
[July 29, 2005, 18:30]
For 2001, futurists are playing coy
News Other would-be seers are jazzed by the prospect of an interplanetary or even intergalactic Internet -- a mother lode of futurist fodder with roots in scientific research at NASA. In a virtual presentation by Gordon Bell on the Web, the chairman of...
[January 2, 2001, 14:14]
News Schmooze: Pac-Man Linux gobbles Microsoft
News The Schmoozer has always been a bit sceptical about the interplanetary Internet idea, since, as far as we know, there is nobody we want to get email from on Mars. Just don't try complaining to the Consumer Association about it since, judging by...
[June 22, 2001, 17:56]
News Schmooze: They're watching you...
News I know -- how about interplanetary Internet communications? It wasn't a good week to be an Internet fraudster, with the FBI cracking down on spurious Beanie Baby sales and the like. As everyone knows, broadband only encourages evil hackers, and UK...
[May 25, 2001, 16:29]
A Year Ago: NASA plans cosmic Internet
News An airplane flight over Mars and an interplanetary Internet are among the new projects that would be funded under the NASA budget proposal unveiled Monday. We're going to build a network, a solar system Internet if you will," Goldin said.
[February 2, 2000, 6:01]
Dr Vinton Cerf - Founder of the Internet
Talkback The interplanetary internet is set to change the face of communication not only on our planet, but also in the way we communicate with our technology in space. On March 2007, Alessandro Sorbello of New Realm Media http://www.newrealm.com.au...
[June 28, 2007, 1:21]
Launching the Internet into outer space
News Researchers at NASA, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, the British National Space Centre and Britain's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency are currently drawing-up plans for an interplanetary Net (IPN) that they believe will make...
[November 17, 1999, 11:25]
Friday
Blog Forget sending picture disks of our culture out to the aliens, strapped to the sides of interplanetary probes: we should immediately start beaming the eBay database into space from Arecibo. Just goes to show that common sense still counts for a lot...
[January 17, 2003, 16:36]
Failed on Earth? Try orbit
Blog The L in LAN comes from the architecture, not the size, of course; the WAN equivalent will be Vint Cerf's Interplanetary Internet. Some good space-based militaria has arrived on that reliable source of interesting intel, Wikileaks.
[January 27, 2009, 11:56]
Wednesday
Blog If you ever wanted a limited bandwidth system, interplanetary comms is it -- we get stuff back from the most distant stuff a handful of bits at a time. Space Shuttle Columbia is up there right now, flying OMNI -- Operating Missions as Nodes on the...
[January 31, 2003, 16:40]
NASA plans cosmic Internet
News We're going to build a network, a solar system Internet if you will," Goldin said. Many of the projects won't yield payoffs until after 2000: For example, the Mars unmanned aircraft would be scheduled to pass over Valles Marineris, a huge canyon on...
[February 2, 1999, 16:58]
viterbi? kebab?? whearrr??
Talkback I love these brilliant dialogues, but have one teeny grumblette. Being old and doddery, I find it hard to understand the chaps all the time. They mumble and slur and jabber occasionally, like all good enthusiastic and intelligent people; so.more...
[May 7, 2009, 11:20]
