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The communication paradigms for Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTN) have been modeled after email. Supporting email over DTN in a backwards compatible manner in a heterogeneous environment has yet to be fully defined. In the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) based on TCP/IP used in the existing terrestrial Internet, the protocol works through multiple interactions between the sender’s mail server and the receiver’s mail server. However, in the space Internet environment, since the contact times are limited, reliability cannot be guaranteed for the interaction between the server and the client used in the existing SMTP. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel mail transfer protocol, DTN-SMTP for space Internet over DTN. To minimize the interaction of the existing SMTP, it relies on one-way transmission and optionally performs retransmission mechanisms. Finally, we have built and configured two DTN nodes to implement DTN-SMTP. Also, we have confirmed the mail’s reception and the file attachment from the external mail client with minimized interactions between the SMTP messages.
This work was supported by the Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute [Development of Space Internet Technology for Korea Lunar Exploration] project in 2020.
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Lee, D., Kang, J., Dahouda, M.K., Joe, I., Lee, K. (2020). DTN-SMTP: A Novel Mail Transfer Protocol with Minimized Interactions for Space Internet. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020. ICCSA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12249. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58799-4_24
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