Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the number of CubeSats and other small satellites in orbit - these have highly constrained computational and communication resources, but still require robust secure communication to operate effectively. The QUIC transport layer protocol is designed to provide efficient communication with cryptography guarantees built-in, with a particular focus on networks with high latency and packet loss. In this work we provide spaceQUIC, a proof of concept implementation of QUIC for NASA's "core Flight System" satellite operating system, and assess its performance.

翻译：近年来，在轨立方星及其他小型卫星的数量迅速增长——它们具备高度受限的计算与通信资源，但仍需稳健的保密通信以实现有效运行。QUIC传输层协议旨在提供内置加密保证的高效通信，特别关注高延迟和高丢包率的网络。本研究提出了spaceQUIC，一个针对美国国家航空航天局“核心飞行系统”卫星操作系统的QUIC概念验证实现，并评估了其性能。