2023/05/22 by Joshua Smailes, Smailes, Joshua, Razvan David +7
Computer Science · Engineering · #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Distributed systems and fault tolerance #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Interconnection Networks and Systems #Satellite Communication Systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2305.12948
openalex publication_date 2023/05/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the number of CubeSats and other small satellites in orbit - these have highly constrained computational and communication resources, but still require robust secure communication to operate effectively. The QUIC transport layer protocol is designed to provide efficient communication with cryptography guarantees built-in, with a particular focus on networks with high latency and packet loss. In this work we provide spaceQUIC, a proof of concept implementation of QUIC for NASA's "core Flight System" satellite operating system, and assess its performance.