The COMMStellation^TM Satellite Constellation for Broadband Communication System Model in NS-2

Anupon Boriboon¹, Siriwhaddhanah Pongpadpinit²

¹School of Science and Technology, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand.
²Advanced Communications and Multimedia Research Laboratory (ACM), School of Science and Technology, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand.

DOI: 10.4236/ijcns.2014.710044                

Abstract

This paper presents the evaluation performance of a hybrid satellite constellation network which provides internet access based Transport Control Protocol (TCP). The evaluated satellite network uses the constellation topology operating on Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The COMMStellation^TM satellite system implemented using network simulator 2 (NS-2). In this paper, we modified a congestion window control based on TCP Westwood. The results show that the proposed technique reduces end-to-end (E2E) delay of transmitting packets. Hence the number of retransmission packets reduced.

Keywords

COMMStellation^TM, NS-2, Satellite, TCP

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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