Research Article
Design and Implemention of an Emulation Node for Space Network Protocol Testing
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-73447-7_70, author={Sichen Zhao and Yuan Fang and Wenfeng Li and Kanglian Zhao}, title={Design and Implemention of an Emulation Node for Space Network Protocol Testing}, proceedings={Machine Learning and Intelligent Communications. Second International Conference, MLICOM 2017, Weihai, China, August 5-6, 2017, Proceedings, Part II}, proceedings_a={MLICOM}, year={2018}, month={2}, keywords={DTN RTEMS Satellite emulation node}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-73447-7_70} }- Sichen Zhao
Yuan Fang
Wenfeng Li
Kanglian Zhao
Year: 2018
Design and Implemention of an Emulation Node for Space Network Protocol Testing
MLICOM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-73447-7_70
Abstract
This paper proposed a scheme to design and implement an embedded emulation node, which provided an approach to emulate a precision network environment for the measurement of network protocols in the space information network. The design scheme employed the Beaglebone black (BBB) board which owns the approximate hardware performance as a satellite has, ported the real-time operating system RTEMS to BBB board, and then loaded the ION-DTN on it. We established the RTEMS development environment on BBB board, and then designed and implemented the network adapter driver associated with BBB board for RTEMS. The emulation results show that the designed emulation node is stable and reliable. With the DTN protocol stack working properly on emulation node, the function and performance of the designed emulation node can meet the requirements of space network protocol tests.