Enabling the Internet of Arctic Things with Freely-Drifting Small-Satellite Swarms
The widespread deployment of Internet-capable devices, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT), reaches even the most remote areas of the planet, including the Arctic. However, and despite the vast scientific and economic interest in this area, communication infrastructures are scarce. Nowadays,...
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ftntnutrondheimi:oai:ntnuopen.ntnu.no:11250/2612110 2023-05-15T14:51:41+02:00 Enabling the Internet of Arctic Things with Freely-Drifting Small-Satellite Swarms Palma, David Birkeland, Roger 2018 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2612110 https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2881088 eng eng Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8533329 IEEE Access. 2018, . urn:issn:2169-3536 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2612110 https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2881088 cristin:1630700 Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no CC-BY 10 IEEE Access Journal article Peer reviewed 2018 ftntnutrondheimi https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2881088 2019-09-17T06:55:24Z The widespread deployment of Internet-capable devices, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT), reaches even the most remote areas of the planet, including the Arctic. However, and despite the vast scientific and economic interest in this area, communication infrastructures are scarce. Nowadays, existing options rely on solutions such as Iridium, which can be limited and too costly. This paper proposes and evaluates an alternative to existing solutions, using small satellites deployed as a freely-drifting swarm. By combining these simpler and more affordable satellites with standard protocols, we show how IoT can be supported in the Arctic. Networking protocols and link characteristics are emulated for 3 different satellite orbits and 4 ground nodes. The impact of different protocols and communication conditions is assessed over a period of 49 days and a cross-layer routing approach proposed. The obtained results reveal that a communication overhead bellow 27 % can be achieved and that the implemented satellite-aware route selection allows reducing the end-to-end time of a request up to 93 min on average. This confirms that freely-drifting small-satellite swarms may enable the Internet of Things even in the most remote areas. publishedVersion Copyright The Authors. Open Access CC-BY Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic NTNU Open Archive (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Arctic IEEE Access 6 71435 71443 |
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The widespread deployment of Internet-capable devices, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT), reaches even the most remote areas of the planet, including the Arctic. However, and despite the vast scientific and economic interest in this area, communication infrastructures are scarce. Nowadays, existing options rely on solutions such as Iridium, which can be limited and too costly. This paper proposes and evaluates an alternative to existing solutions, using small satellites deployed as a freely-drifting swarm. By combining these simpler and more affordable satellites with standard protocols, we show how IoT can be supported in the Arctic. Networking protocols and link characteristics are emulated for 3 different satellite orbits and 4 ground nodes. The impact of different protocols and communication conditions is assessed over a period of 49 days and a cross-layer routing approach proposed. The obtained results reveal that a communication overhead bellow 27 % can be achieved and that the implemented satellite-aware route selection allows reducing the end-to-end time of a request up to 93 min on average. This confirms that freely-drifting small-satellite swarms may enable the Internet of Things even in the most remote areas. publishedVersion Copyright The Authors. Open Access CC-BY |
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