On Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 16:58:29 GMT+10, Jon Crowcroft 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> DTN is also sometimes interpreted as "Disruption Tolerant Networking",
> (e.g. not just delay between earth and mars, but phobos or deimos
> get in the way from time to time, so ingenuity crashes without anyone
> seeingg

> (or in the terrestrial case, you'ree train goes into a tunel whether
> there's no cell phone coverage)...

In the interplanetary internet delay-tolerant networking case link loss can
be planned for and scheduled into operations. Orbital mechanics are
quite predictable in the short-to-medium term. Path delays are long.
(and phobos and deimos don't cast large shadows...)

Trains are also scheduled and run according to plan -- in most countries.
When a car goes into a tunnel, however, is less amenable to planning.
Disruption is, by its nature, unplanned. Path delays are shorter.

A graph that attempts to represents the orthogonality of delay- and
disruption-tolerant networking, and how they differ, is in fig 1 of:

Sharing the dream: The consensual networking hallucination offered by the 
Bundle Protocol

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICUMT.2009.5345655

http://lloydwood.users.sourceforge.net/Personal/L.Wood/publications/index.html#e-dtn-position

TCP is pretty much the default for DTN, because much development was done
over TCP, it was well-understood, convenient, reliable. Transports for actual
delay and disruption are far harder.


Lloyd Wood 
http://lloydwood.users.sourceforge.net/Personal/L.Wood/dtn/






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