SpaceFibre networks: SpaceFibre, long paper

TY - GEN

T1 - SpaceFibre networks

T2 - International SpaceWire Conference 2016

AU - Parkes, Stephen

AU - McClements, Christopher

AU - McLaren, David

AU - Ferrer Florit, Albert

AU - Gonzalez-Villafranca, Alberto

N1 - The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Space Agency under ESA contract numbers 4000102641 and 17938/03/NL/LvH, from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement numbers 263148 and 284389 and from the UK Space Agency and CEOI-ST under University of Leicester contract numbers: RP10G0348A02, RP10G0348B206 and RP10G0348A207.

PY - 2016/12/8

Y1 - 2016/12/8

N2 - SpaceFibre is the next generation of SpaceWire on-board data-handling network technology for spaceflight operations, which runs over both electrical and fibre optic media. SpaceFibre has many benefits compared to SpaceWire, including much higher data-rates, integrated quality of service, fault recovery capabilities, multi-laning with graceful degradation and hot and cold redundancy, and low-latency broadcast messages that can carry 8-bytes of user information. Importantly SpaceFibre is backwards compatible with SpaceWire at the network level, allowing existing SpaceWire equipment to be incorporated into a SpaceFibre network without modification. SpaceFibre networks have been defined by the University of Dundee and STAR-Dundee, and incorporated in the network layer definition of the current draft SpaceFibre standard. STARDundee has designed a SpaceFibre routing switch to evaluate various routing concepts, validate the standard specification and demonstrate a complete SpaceFibre network. A demonstration system has been built and key parts of the SpaceFibre network technology have been demonstrated.

AB - SpaceFibre is the next generation of SpaceWire on-board data-handling network technology for spaceflight operations, which runs over both electrical and fibre optic media. SpaceFibre has many benefits compared to SpaceWire, including much higher data-rates, integrated quality of service, fault recovery capabilities, multi-laning with graceful degradation and hot and cold redundancy, and low-latency broadcast messages that can carry 8-bytes of user information. Importantly SpaceFibre is backwards compatible with SpaceWire at the network level, allowing existing SpaceWire equipment to be incorporated into a SpaceFibre network without modification. SpaceFibre networks have been defined by the University of Dundee and STAR-Dundee, and incorporated in the network layer definition of the current draft SpaceFibre standard. STARDundee has designed a SpaceFibre routing switch to evaluate various routing concepts, validate the standard specification and demonstrate a complete SpaceFibre network. A demonstration system has been built and key parts of the SpaceFibre network technology have been demonstrated.

KW - SpaceFibre

KW - SpaceWire

KW - Networking

KW - Spacecraft Electronics

U2 - 10.1109/SpaceWire.2016.7771599

DO - 10.1109/SpaceWire.2016.7771599

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 9781509008780

SP - 1

EP - 6

BT - 2016 International SpaceWire Conference (SpaceWire)

PB - IEEE

Y2 - 25 October 2017 through 27 October 2017

ER -