• DtnBone

DTN-Bone

In the spirit of the mbone and the 6bone, we are using the term "dtnbone" to denote our effort to establish a worldwide collection of nodes running DTN bundle agents and applications. These nodes cannot take the place of internal test beds in various research organizations; rather, they augment these internal environments in areas such as remote management and control of nodes, interoperability, application deployment and testing, as well as operations across administrative boundaries.

This page lists nodes that various organizations are making available for interconnection via the Internet. That is of course only the first step. Node operators need to set up their local environments so bundles can be transferred, and the nodes have to run some sort of application beyond the bundle forwarding engine. Look at

• GRC Always On DTN Network Instructions for using the GRC multi-hop, DTNbone with network management capabilities and disconnection.

• Ohio University Always On DTN Network Instructions for using the Ohio University multi-hop, DTNbone with network management capabilities and disconnection.

• Network Management Meeting Notes, slides, & agenda from January 8, 2010 DTN Network Management Meeting at Ohio University.

• Disconnectathon This interoperability test took place on July 29 and 30, 2009. The information on these pages remains relevant for future tests; many of the network configurations will remain on the DTNbone.

  • Results were presented at the dtnrg research group meeting in Stockholm. (Download the slides)

• Applications for notes on deployed applications, and

• Use Cases for notes on successful interconnection efforts.

• Security Test Keys contains test keys can certificates that can be used for interoperability testing.

Technical Details

So far, nodes represent the following implementations:

• DTN2 - the bundle reference implementation

• ION - the JPL implementation of the Bundle Protocol and LTP

• LTPlib - the LTP implementation developed at Trinity College.

• Spindle3 - The BBN Technologies implementation of the Bundle Protocol, based on the PIRANA BPA

• IBR-DTN - The IBR implementation of the Bundle Protocol used with embedded hardware

The table below uses the following conventions for Bundle Protocol (BP) Convergence Layers (CLs):

• TCP - BP over TCP as described in https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/draft-irtf-dtnrg-tcp-clayer/.

  • The assigned port if 4556/tcp
• s-TCP - BP over TCP as implemented in ION.
  • Also uses 4556/tcp, may be moved in future implementations.
• UDP - BP transport over UDP sending one bundle per UDP packet.
  • The assigned port is 4556/UDP
• LTP - BP transport over LTP which in turn usually transmits its frames in single UDP packets (indicated by UDP in the LTP column below).
  • Ports 1113/udp and 1113/tcp have been assigned by IANA

  • The UDP convergence layers are being discussed via https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/draft-irtf-dtnrg-udp-clayer/

Interconnection of different implementations:

• ION/LTP and LTP-T will interoperate via UDP

• ION and DTN2 currently only interoperate via UDP

  • Some researchers have patched ION to change its s-TCP CL to TCP
  • Ohio University is implementing TCP as an additional CL into ION, monitor the ion-users and dtnbone lists for announcements
• Spindle3 interoperates with compliant UDP and TCP implementations

Node Naming:

• dtn: name space supported by ION and DTN2

  • node names should be listed inside the node details
  • this wiki can serve as a useful reference to names used, but name collisions are not likely

• ipn: name space used by ION for CBHE operations (the name space used to trigger CBHE may change)

  • CBHE requires the use of a flat space of node numbers
  • node numbers need to be coordinated, for now we are using the wiki to do this:

    • CBHE Node Numbers

Get Involved

• The dtnbone effort is organized by Hans Kruse <kruse AT ohiou DOT edu> at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States. E-mail me with any questions or with information for this page.

• Join the dtnbone mailing list; this is a low-volume list used to coordinate activities between node operators.

• Edit this page to add your information if you feel comfortable doing so. The Home page has instructions for requesting edit access.

Nodes

Listed below are the nodes that are generally available for interconnection via DTN. Note: more often than not some coordination between nodes is required (e.g., editing of local configuration files) before a connection can be established. Look here for information on specific DTN application services. Below the table of nodes you will find additional information where available.

Node Details

Ohio University

• Geographic Location: Athens, OH 39.3253 -82.1051

• Contact Information: <kruse AT ohiou DOT edu>

• Node DNS name or IP address: iongateway.dtnbone.ocp.ohiou.edu
  • ION 1.2
  • CL: TCP, LTP via UDP
  • Ports
    • 1113/udp ltp-deepspace
    • 4556/tcp dtn-bundle-tcp (ION TCP)
  • CBHE (ipn:) node number: 200
• Node DNS name or IP address: quest.its.ohiou.edu
  • ION nightly build
  • DTN2 available
  • CL: UDP, sTCP, TCP, LTP via UDP
  • Ports
    • 1113/udp ltp-deepspace
    • 4556/udp dtn-bundle-udp
    • 4556/tcp dtn-bundle-tcp (ION TCP)
  • CBHE (ipn:) node number: 102
• Node DNS name or IP address: laren.its.ohiou.edu
  • ION nightly build
  • DTN2 available
  • CL: UDP, sTCP, TCP, LTP via UDP
  • Ports
    • 1113/udp ltp-deepspace
    • 4556/udp dtn-bundle-udp
    • 4556/tcp dtn-bundle-tcp (ION TCP)
  • CBHE (ipn:) node number: 103
• Active registrations:
• Other details

  • Topology

  • Link details

  • Link disconnection schedule

Shawnee State University

• Geographic Location: Portsmouth, OH 38.7312 -82.9943

• Contact Information: Dovel Myers <dmyers AT shawnee DOT edu>

• Node DNS name or IP address: shawneeursamajor.org -> 173.53.197.68

  • Implementation: DTN2 -> 2.7.0

  • CL: TCP, UDP
  • Port: 4556
  • EID: dtn://earth.dtn
  • Testbed Gateway For:
    • dtn://earth_sat.dtn
    • dtn://moon.dtn
    • dtn://moon_sat.dtn
    • dtn://mars.dtn
    • dtn://mars_sat.dtn
    • dtn://jupiter.dtn
    • dtn://jupiter_sat.dtn
• Other Information

  • Testbed Home

  • Testbed Layout

  • Using our Earth Gateway

Comnet, TKK

• Geographic location: Espoo, Finland 24.283208, 60.18949

• Contact information: Teemu Karkkainen <teemuk AT netlab DOT tkk DOT fi>

• Node DNS name or IP address: shrek.netlab.hut.fi
  • CL: DTN2 TCP (Internet Draft version) on Standard ports
• Applications
  • DTN camera: dtn://camera.dtnbone.comnet.tkk.fi/camera (Will reply to any bundle it receives with a jpeg picture in the payload).
• Active registrations:
  • dtn://dtnbone.comnet.tkk.fi
  • dtn://dtnbone.comnet.tkk.fi/ping

Trinity College Dublin

• Geographic Location: Dublin, Ireland @53.344505, -6.258967

• Contact Information: Stephen Farrell <stephen DOT farrell AT cs DOT tcd DOT ie>, Alex McMahon <alex DOT mcmahon AT cs DOT tcd DOT ie>

• Node DNS name or IP address: basil.dsg.cs.tcd.ie

  • DTN2 & LTP-T

  • CL: UDP, LTP via UDP
  • Ports
    • 1113/udp ltp-deepspace
    • 4556/udp dtn-bundle-udp
• Active registrations:
  • dtn://basil.dsg.cs.tcd.ie.dtn
  • dtn://basil.dsg.cs.tcd.ie.dtn/ping

NASA Glenn Research Center

• Geographic Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States.

• Contact Information: Joseph Ishac <jishac AT nasa DOT gov>

• Node: 192.55.90.165
  • DTN2 ver 2.6
    • Port 5017; CL: TCP, UDP
    • dtn://unit017.dtn/
  • ION ver 1.0r203
    • Port 4556; CL: "s-TCP"
    • ipn:17.1 (not queued) or ipn:17.2 (queued)

Viagénie

• Geographic location: Québec City, Canada

• Contact information: Marc Blanchet <marc DOT blanchet AT viagenie DOT ca> or Simon Perreault <simon DOT perreault AT viagenie DOT ca>

• Node DNS name or IP address: reeves.viagenie.ca
  • DTN2
  • UDP, TCP (Internet Draft version, standard port numbers)

• Applications: DTN News Service (see http://reeves.viagenie.ca)

• Active registrations:
  • dtn://reeves.viagenie.ca.dtn
  • dtn://reeves.viagenie.ca.dtn/ping

BBN Technologies

• Geographic Location: Cambridge, MA, United States.

• Contact Information: Daniel Ellard <dellard AT bbn DOT com>

• Node name bbn-dtnbone-01.ir.bbn.com, IP 192.1.100.125

  • Online intermittently

  • Spindle3 BPA (development version)
  • Port 4556; CL: TCP, UDP
  • dtn://bbn-dtnbone-01/
• Node name bbn-dtnbone-02.ir.bbn.com, IP 192.1.100.126

  • Online intermittently

  • Spindle3 BPA (development version)
  • Port 4556; CL: TCP, UDP
  • dtn://bbn-dtnbone-02/
• Node name bbn-dtnbone-03.ir.bbn.com, IP 192.1.100.127

  • Online intermittently

  • Spindle3 BPA (development version)
  • Port 4556; CL: TCP, UDP
  • dtn://bbn-dtnbone-03/

IBR, TU Braunschweig

• Geographic Location: Brunswiek, Germany, OH: 52.27321, 10.52521

• Contact Information: Johannes Morgenroth <morgenro AT ibr DOT cs DOT tu-bs DOT de>

• Node DNS name or IP address: dtnbucket.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (134.169.35.178)

  • Hardware: Buffalo Terastation Pro

  • Implementation: IBR-DTN 0.4.1
  • EID: dtn://dtnbucket.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
  • CL: TCP, UDP
    • 4556/tcp
    • 4556/udp

Specific Applications

• News via DTN: http://reeves.viagenie.ca/

• DTN camera: dtn://camera.dtnbone.comnet.tkk.fi/camera (Will reply to any bundle it receives with a jpeg picture in the payload).
• IBR-DTN webcams: dtn://dtnbucket.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/webcam01 and dtn://dtnbucket.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/webcam02 (Will reply to any bundle it receives with a jpeg picture in the payload).