Abstract: The rapid advance of exploration and commercial development in cislunar and, eventually, interplanetary space will accelerate the need for scalable, reliable communication among large numbers of very remote robotic devices – IoT deployed over an internet spanning the solar system. This talk will discuss the potential use of delay-tolerant networking (DTN) architecture for interplanetary IoT, with some thoughts on DTN features that might be useful in terrestrial IoT as well.
Speaker Bio: Scott Burleigh recently retired from a position as a Principal Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where he had been developing flight mission software, since 1986. He is a member of the Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Research Group, Internet Research Task Force. He is the coauthor of the DTN Architecture definition (Internet RFC 4838). He is also the coauthor of the initial specification for the DTN Bundle Protocol (BP, Internet RFC 5050) supporting automated data forwarding through a network of intermittently connected nodes, and of its successor, RFC 9171. In addition, he is the coauthor of the specifications for the Licklider Transmission Protocol (LTP, Internet RFCs 5325 through 5327) supporting data block transmission reliability at the data link layer. He led the development and maintenance of implementations of BP and LTP that are designed for integration into deep space mission flight software, with the long-term goal of enabling the deployment of a delay-tolerant solar system internetwork. He has received the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal and four NASA Space Act Board Awards for his work on the design and implementation of these communication protocols.