Challenge Overview
The Office of Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) at NASA Headquarters leads the Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) investigation with the goal of advancing the maturity and heritage (space flight use) of the DTN communication protocols.
Delay tolerant networks make use of store-and-forward techniques within the network in order to compensate for intermittent link connectivity. In the DTN the fundamental concept is an architecture based on Internet-independent middleware where protocols at all layers are used that best suit the operation within each environment, with a new overlay network protocol (bundle protocol) inserted between the applications and the locally optimized communications stacks.
The purpose of this contest is analyze the open source (ION) DTN (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ion-dtn/) distribution and architect the LTP authentication procedures.
Final Submission Guidelines
Technologies involved in the analysis are C, C++ and some Python scripts available for testing.
See wiki: http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/docs/ION-DTN+LTP+Authentication+Architecture