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In order to support Precision Formation Flying (PFF) mission, distributed spacecraft requires inter-satellites communication links with reliable and efficient performance. An optimized Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is used to provide high-quality broadband service with high reliability and system capacity. It separates the whole network into two sub-networks, including a control sub-network in mesh architecture for time-critical control messages, and a data sub-network in Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) architecture for high speed data messages. In this paper, an event-driven Medium Access Control (E-MAC) protocol for control sub-network to deal with PFF high priority messages is proposed. E-MAC protocol is based on the event-driven mechanism: spacecraft adjust the contention parameters to the arrival of primary events and secondary events. Analysis and simulation results indicate that the proposed E-MAC protocol can achieve real-time ability as well as spectrum and energy efficiency.
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This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61372070), Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (2015JM6324), Ningbo Natural Science Foundation (2015A610117), National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program-2015AA015701), and the 111 Project (B08038).
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Jiao, H., Zhao, L., Zhang, X. (2018). Heterogeneous Control and Data Split Network for Precision Formation Flying of Distributed Spacecraft. In: Chen, Q., Meng, W., Zhao, L. (eds) Communications and Networking. ChinaCom 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 209. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66625-9_7
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