ANALYSIS OF MESSAGE WAITING TIME OVER METEOR-BURST COMMUNICATION-NETWORKS

Data transmission over the Meteor-Burst Communication (MBC) channel ha s certain advantages that make it attractive for both civil and milita ry applications. The recent development of netted MBCs coupled with th e intermittent nature of such communications made methods to evaluate the performance of systems operating on such networks of practical int erest. Of special importance in particular, is the need to compute Mes sage Waiting Time (MWT) or the average amount of time required to deli ver a message of a fixed length from one point in the network to anoth er. In this paper a mathematical analysis for the MWT for different ne twork topologies is given. Tn addition, strategies for minimizing the MWT over MBC networks are proposed and evaluated.