Space cloud mesh architecture
AssigneeRtx Bbn Technologies, Inc.
InventorsBenjamin Montgomery, Peter H. Fischer, Syed Ali Naqvi
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Abstract
Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media provide resilient space cloud architectures. A device includes a distributed, disrupted, disconnected and denied D4 enabled satellite configured for D4 operations in a mesh network of D4 enabled satellites, the D4 enabled satellite comprising virtual network functions (VNFs), a network virtual function orchestrator (NFVO), and a software defined network (SDN) controller configured for secure VNF-VNF or VNF-ground communications.
Claims19
A distributed, disrupted, disconnected and denied (D4) enabled satellite configured for D4 operations in a mesh network of D4 enabled satellites, the D4 enabled satellite comprising:
- virtual network functions (VNFs);
- a network virtual function orchestrator (NFVO);
- and
- a software defined network (SDN) controller configured for secure VNF-VNF or VNF-ground communications;
- wherein the SDN controller is configured to identify parent controllers based on a ranking of candidate controllers resulting in identified parent controllers.
A system comprising a mesh network of distributed, disrupted, disconnected and denied (D4) enabled satellites configured for D4 operations, each of the D4 enabled satellites comprising:
- virtual network functions (VNFs);
- a network virtual function orchestrator (NFVO);
- and
- a software defined network (SDN) controller configured for secure VNF-VNF or VNF-ground communications, the SDN controller is configured to identify parent controllers based on a ranking of candidate controllers resulting in identified parent controllers and select a parent controller of the parent controllers that ranks highest.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations for distributed, disrupted, disconnected and denied (D4) enabled satellite operations in a mesh network of D4 enabled satellites, the operations comprising:
- identifying, by a software defined network (SDN) controller, parent controllers based on a ranking of candidate controllers resulting in identified parent controllers;
- selecting, by the SDN controller, a parent controller of the parent controllers that ranks highest;
- managing, by a network virtual function orchestrator (NFVO) and based on a communication from the parent controller, services provided by virtual network functions (VNFs);
- executing, by the VNFs, the services indicated by the NFVO;
- and
- communicating, by a software defined network (SDN) controller, results of executing the services to a device on the ground.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.