The worldwide adoption of the Internet Things (IoT) depends on massive deployment sensor nodes and timely data collection. However, installing required ground infrastructure in remote or inaccessible areas can be economically unattractive unfeasible. Cost-effective nanosatellites deployed low Earth orbits (LEOs) are emerging as an alternative solution: on-board IoT gateways provide access to de...

Estimating the network delays between each pair of nodes in a multicast session is the key parameter in reliable multicast; it is used, among other things, in suppressing the implosion of request and repair packets, and in detecting congestion. Existing implementations useO(n) multicasts withO(n) message size each (total of O(n) bits); here, n is the session size. We present a new protocol that...

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