The DARPA packet radio network protocols
Abstract
The current state of the DARPA packet radio network is described. Fully automated algorithms and protocols to organize, control, maintain, and move traffic through the packet radio network have been designed, implemented, and tested. By means of protocols, networks of about 50 packet radios with some degree of nodal mobility can be organized and maintained under a fully distributed mode of control. The algorithms are described and how the packet radionetwork provides highly reliable network transport and datagram service, by dynamically determining optimal routes, effectively controlling congestion, and fairly allocating the channel in the face of changing link conditions, mobility, and varying traffic loads is illustrated.
- Publication:
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IEEE Proceedings
- Pub Date:
- January 1987
- Bibcode:
- 1987IEEEP..75...21J
- Keywords:
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- Communication Networks;
- Defense Program;
- Packet Switching;
- Protocol (Computers);
- Radio Transmission;
- Algorithms;
- Automatic Control;
- Multiple Access;
- Optimal Control;
- Communications and Radar