32 Resource-Aware Routing in Interplanetary Mars Surface Network

Spatial exploration projects become more and more complex, involving several different communication nodes posing various communication challenges. To deal with communication challenges in Mars, an interplanetary overlay Network is proposed to establish a communication infrastructure among planets, natural and artificial satellites, and various mission elements such as spacecrafts and rovers. Mars surface nodes in such network have limited resources in terms of storage, energy, processing power. To this end, the paper proposes a resource-aware routing in Interplanetary Surface Network (IPRAR). Performance results are promising.