Abstract

Maintaining connectivity in deep-space communications is of critical importance to key missions and the ability to adapt node behavior "on-the-Fly" can have dynamic benefits. Autonomic operation minimizes failure risk by performing local configurations using collected context data and on-board policies, improving response time to events, and reducing remote mission management expense. Herein, we evaluate cost-benefit impacts when a context-aware brokering algorithm developed to achieve autonomy Is applied to Interplanetary communications systems.