The Development of NS2 Module for High-Speed Internet Satellite (WINDS)

Hiroshi YAMAMOTO  Genki KOMADA  Katsuichi NAKAMURA  Takashi TAKAHASHI  Katsuyuki YAMAZAKI 

Publication
B - Abstracts of IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications (Japanese Edition)  Vol.J94-B  No.10  pp.1363-1372
Publication Date: 2011/10/01
Online ISSN: 1881-0209
Print ISSN: 1344-4697
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Internet Architecture for Smart Society)
Category: 
Keyword: 
WINDS (Kizuna),  satellite communication,  packet loss pattern,  network simulator, 

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Summary: 
In this study, we clarify that the unique characteristic of packet losses appears in the WIND's satellite network. In the satellite network, the multiple packets are dropped at a time when transmission link error occurs because of the frame format of the satellite link. Such a block-loss model is very different from the traditional burst-loss model. Furthermore, in order to accelerate future R&D on WINDS, we model the packet block-loss pattern by combining Poisson distribution and two normal distributions, and implement it as module software of the Network Simulator (NS2).