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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2013
Christopher A. Archer, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
James M. Cicchiello, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
John Featherston, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Frederick D. Bean, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Christopher A. Archer, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
James M. Cicchiello, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
John Featherston, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Frederick D. Bean, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Abstract
A free-space optical (FSO) transceiver can include a transmission protocol configured to encapsulate outgoing network packets in by employing a reliable ordered protocol that relies on retransmission of lost data to form outgoing encapsulated packets. The transmission protocol controller can be configured to employ a congestion algorithm that optimizes throughput over a lossy link. The FSO transceiver can also include a transmitter configured to provide an output optical signal corresponding to the outgoing encapsulated packets over an FSO link.