Communication Networks for Space
Schedule & Location
Date: Lecture/Tutorial Wed 09:15 - 11:45
Room: H2 (W0020)
The lecture is colocated with the lecture Communication Networks -- students attend selected modules of the CN lecture which are announced in the first module.
Start: 15 October 2025
Credits: 3 ECTS points - 2 SWS
VAK Number: 01-29-03-CNSp-V
Content Overview
- Introduction into CommNets
- Traditional Internet: TCP/IP
- Bearer Technologies for IoT and WSN: Bluetooth and ZigBee, application examples
- Protocols for wireless sensor networks
- Delay-tolerant networks
- Opportunistic networks
- ComNets for space
- types of spacecraft and orbits and their effect on communication
- data types and quality-of-service requirements
- architecture of space networks, state of the art of national space operators
- bearer technologies: requirements for communcation links, PHY, MAC and convergence layers
- routing for space networks
- transport convergence/shim layer
- application layer
Additional Reading
J. Kurose/K. Ross: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach. 6th ed., Pearson Education, 2013
A. F?rster: Wireless Sensor Networks. Wiley, 2016
J. Taylor: Deep Space Communications. Wiley, 2016