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Vint Cerf Plugs Android Into Interplanetary Net
Several readers sent in an update on DTN, the interplanetary Internet protocol that Vint Cerf has been working on for many years (and we have been discussing for nearly as long). The news now is that Cerf has added a DTN stack to the open source Android code, seeing uses in mobile applications for a protocol that does not assume a continuous connection.
Is "interplanetary" part of the unlimited calling package?
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This will be perfect for AT&T's network. And with slightly less latency than Voyager.
When will this go intergalactic?
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Should have called it HDB (Hot Dead Bird) protocol.
Sweet!
See? Space research does have spinoffs for everyday life. If we weren't trying to get to Mars, we wouldn't have this useful protocol for Earthside use.
Double NASA's budget at once.
Consciousness is an illusion caused by an excess of self consciousness.
It's a good thing I like my pizza cold...
Remember to maintain your supply of
Yeah. Now we can ditch the Speak'n'Spell when we want to phone home.
if my laptop gets dated in 5 years, then its a safe bet that in 50 years the magical world of Android and iphone may be slightly dated in terms of interplanetary network access and communication. Although hey if the VAX had fibre channel...
Good people go to bed earlier.
If it works well with a potentially poor channel, maybe it would be suitable for improving packet radio systems. Remember that article a week or two back about what would happen if "the Government" shut off the Internet? Go get those amateur radio licences, folks...
Some of my family thinks I'm on another planet. Now they can call me.
I need this like I need Graffiti on my G1. Wait, that would be cool...
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
Sounds like uucp over zmodem.
I'm a Programmer. That's one level above Software Engineer and one level below Engineer.
Like a pinch on the neck from mister Spock
...
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...so how do I dial the eigth chevron on DTMF?
Several readers sent in an update on DTN, the interplanetary Internet protocol ...
Please stop screwing up the meaning of DTN. Not just /., but everyone writing article about Vint Cerf and "his" interplanetary internet. The acronym stands for Delay Tolerant Network, and is a type of network in which connectivity is ephemeral and a contemporaneous path between two points often doesn't exist at any point in time, necessitating any communication to be tolerant to delay (and/or disruption).
A DTN protocol is one that takes advantage of the ephemeral connectivity of DTNs, usually along the lines of employing the store, carry, and forward approach to getting data from A to B via a time-varying path; e.g. a path exists, just not at any point in time.
What Cerf has done has create a bundle forwarding protocol stack for the Android. It's not as "out there" as you'd think- someone send you data, you carry it, then forward it later. Lots of questions/issues in between as you might imagine.
I think some people like Kevin Fall need to get more credit for their contribution to this area of research.
Disclaimer: I am NOT Kevin Fall but I am a network researcher, specifically in the area of DTNs. No, not the algorithm.
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http://mailman.ccsds.org/pipermail/sis-dtn/2008-July/000038.html
tomorrow who's gonna fuss
Did it find out what was wrong with the hyperdrive?
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Essentially this sounds like a message queue system. But at the packet level.
ordered, guaranteed delivery.
But what did they use as the reference point for time. GMT seems a little egotistical.
gedw99
...so how do I dial the eighth chevron on DTMF?
The same way you'd dial the seventh for a seven-chevron address: press pound and star simultaneously (though one of them may actually be marked with infinity).
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Too bad for AT&T I'm an iPhone and iDon't do DTN.
Verizon apparently agrees that a data call on a cell phone isn't considered a continuous connection. I was with Alltel using #777 to get slow data calls for free. Since they became part of Verizon, I discover Verizon treats these data calls not only as consuming voice minutes, but also that they consider the connection as starting and stopping for any lull in traffic and round each one to the next minute. Over a period of 2 hours I'd used 130 minutes, and at a charge of 40 cents a minute due to having run out of minutes.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Is there any source for the implementation? I looked around the DTN wiki, googled, and still couldn't find it. Am I blind, or is this still in the "let's brag about it but not share the code" stage?
Vint Cerf Plugs Interplanetary Net Into Android