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Along with the development of the IPN (InterPlaNetary) Internet, the terrestrial Internet and interplanetary exploration network will be seamlessly merged with each other. However, significant challenges in control and management exist in such a complicated network. These include the efficient and reliable dissemination of control information, and the building up of an overlay network. This paper reviews current networking technologies for the IPN Internet and presents a novel architecture that divides it into subnets. A network model based on clusters is proposed to account for the problem of dynamic coupling among subnets and achieve monolithic controllability of the whole network. A new paradigm that separates the control and service planes is presented to reduce congestion and guarantee the reliable distribution of control information. We also present a modified version of a delay-tolerant-network protocol stack that separates the network layer into generalized inter-cluster sub-layers and discriminative intra-cluster sub-layers to improve the transmission efficiency of control information. Simulation results indicate that both the control and service data delivery is more efficient and reliable through clustering of the IPN Internet. Finally, we present recent achievements in network-information theoretical approaches that can be successfully applied to deep-space communication.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.91338201, 91438109, 61401507, 61571464).
GOU Liang was born in Hubei Province, China, on October 18, 1981. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from PLAUST (PLA University of Science and Technology) in 2008 and 2015 respectively. His research interests include satellite communications, deep space communications and network coding. (Email: gouliang880@163.com)
ZHANG Gengxin [corresponding author] was bom in Zhejiang Province, China, on January 1, 1967. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Institute of Communication Engineer in 1990 and 1993 respectively. He is currently a professor in PLAUST (PLA University of Science and Technology), Nanjing, China. His research interests include the design of communication systems, satellite and deep space communications. (Email: satlab@ 126.com)
ZHANG Wei received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from PLAUST (PLA University of Science and Technology), Nanjing, China, in 2012 and 2016 respectively. His research interests include the satellite communications and deep space communications. (Email: zev@msn.com)
BIAN Dongming received the Ph.D. degree from PLAUST (PLA University of Science and Technology), Nanjing, China, in 2004. He is currently a Professor in PLAUST. His research interests include wireless communications, satellite communications and deep space communications. (Email: bian_dm@163.com)
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Gou, L., Zhang, G., Zhang, W. et al. Cluster-based architecture and network model for InterPlaNetary Internet. J. Commun. Inf. Netw. 1, 51–66 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391570
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