The isaft spacewire simulatorrecorder software package includes a gui for. The ccsds space packet defined in 4 is shown in the figure hereafter. Software for packet radio use category is a curation of 32 web resources on, linpac packet radio terminal, uiss windows packet program, packetcluster dx statistics. There are two ways of addressing spacewire packets.
Spacewire provides high bandwidth communication using pointtopoint links between subsystems or networked interconnection using routing switches to forward packets of data across the network. It is impossible get the information about spacewire end of packet eop symbol from the udp packet. Spacewire pci spacewire bus interface with 4 spacewire. The destination address is the first part of the packet to be sent and is a list of data characters that represents either the. The router examines the first data character of the packet. Packet header anomaly detection using bayesian topic models xuefei cao, bo chen, hui li, yulong fu january 18, 2016 abstract a method of network intrusion detection is proposed based on bayesian topic models. Path addressing is used to specify the path through a network directly. Spacewire operates from 2mbps to 400mbps over a fullduplex pointtopoint serial link over a distance of 10m. Windows for the end user is the easiest for installing the tcpip over ax. Mar 01, 2018 a spacewire packet 610 having a total of 3017 bytes of data and an eopeep is initially received.
Simulate instruments or other spacewire equipment in real time during testing and integration generates user defined packets in predefined sequences at specific times and data rates i. The spacewire packet is received by the spacewire interface at the target. This innovation applies to anything that utilizes both spacewire networks and the cfe software. Within a spacewire network the nodes are connected through lowcost, lowlatency, fullduplex, pointtopoint serial links, and packet switching wormhole routing routers. Once configured, the spw operates autonomously without software intervention. An acknowledgement may be returned in an optional reply packet. A spacewire endpoint is a hardware or software process that connects to. The mdrreceived data format conforms to the space packet ccsds regulation as the upper layer protocol of the spacewire rmap ccsds 2012. It is destined to virtual link 2 and the gresb will start transmitting the packet on the appropriate socket.
Design of a mission network system using spacewire for. When the mdr receives the data packet, it reads the application process identifier apid included in the space packet primary header and the category that is the mdr save destination area, and checks. The aim of the rmap protocol is to standardize the way in which spacewire units are configured and to provide a lowlevel mechanism for the transfer of data between two spacewire nodes. These are the first few entries in an ascii log file that can approach a gb in size. Each packet traveling through a spacewire network can use path addressing source routing or logical addressing or some combination. The length of the header part may be not always aligned with 32 bits, which is mostly used by processors. Packet header anomaly detection using bayesian topic models. Spacewire is a spacecraft communication network based in part on the ieee 55 standard of.
We consider the software issues involved in combining the best of spacewire, such as modularity, high. Information is transferred across a spacewire link in distinct packets. Format in addition to the network interface to the spacewirepci driver. The spacewire ip core supports port speeds up to 2 gbps with full ecssest5012crev. Ethernet offers a rich set of triedandtested protocols and software. All protocols are characterized by a header part and a data part. The difference is that the physical addresses are deleted from the frame header during routing which is used. Us patent for ethernet to spacewire bridge patent patent. If the received packet is not of rmap type the header crc error indication bit cannot be used. We consider the software issues involved in combining the best of spacewire, such as modularity, high speed, low latency, fault tolerance, and ease of implementation, with the vast experience of protocol design that has been implemented on ethernet. Packets can be sent in both directions of the link, provided that there is room in the receiver.
The first requirement is to route ethernet data accept a packet rests with the receiver. The protocol input and output blocks determine the destination of packets dependent on the packet header. Spacewire enables the reliable sending of data at highspeed over fullduplex, pointtopoint, serial data communication links. The spacewire interface is a pointtopoint cable bus used to handle payload data onboard a spacecraft. After the packet cargo is the eop, which defines the end of packet. The spacewire packet 610 is converted into a segmented spacewire packet 620 having three packet segments. Data can be viewed at the packet or character level. The spacewire specification defines the physical, electrical and protocol layers of the interface. The leading data character of a packet the destination identifier contains the required output port number of the router.
Evaluation of commercial communication network protocols for. Every rmap packet has a header, minimum length of 16 bytes for command and 12 bytes for reply, plus a crc byte for data bytes in a packet 6. The write command provides a means for one node, the initiator node, to write one or more bytes of data into memory of another node, the target node on a spacewire network. In fact, you could probably embed tcpip in spacewire packets, if you wanted to and not. In predefined sequences at specific times and data rates. Agwpe is widely accepted in the amateur radio packet software community and is a tool that provides a standard interface between packet radio software and associated hardware. Enables spacewire to support multiple network types. The ccsds consultative committee for space data systems packet contains predetermined values in its payload fields that electronic hardware attached at the terminus of the spacewire. Application information is sent along a spacewire link in discrete packets. Otherwise one of the control codes, including end of packet eop. Jun 23, 2011 packet type 1 0b cii spacewireccsds packet secondary header flag 1 0b1 indicates the ciiccsds secondary header is present application process identifier 11 02048 reserved for instrument use sequence flags 2 0b11 indicates packet is unsegmented sequence count 14 016383 specifies the packet sequence count. The spacewire specification calls for lvds signaling and a specific 9 pin microd connector. Spacewire test and development unit developed by stardundee purpose.
Second byte protocol id reserved 0x00 0xff used to indicate expansion of the protocol id to a total of 32 bits including original protocol id byte assignment authority esa initially receives 32 protocol ids for assignment. Ccsds source packet 5 broadcast 254 1 byte virtual channel id spacewire header encapsulation header data spacewire cargo 1 byte encapsulation header virtual channel id. Pdf spacewire remote memory access protocol researchgate. The network level describes how packets are routed over a network of routers and nodes 3. A spacewire packet 610 having a total of 3017 bytes of data and an eopeep is initially received. Ethernet to spacewire bridge honeywell international inc.
Throughout this paper all spacewire accesses involve remote memory access protocol rmap 2 commands sent to and responses received from rmap targets. Analysis can be of events days, weeks, or even months in the past. The minimum header size of a tcpip packet is 40 bytes, which is quite an. The spacewire codec implements the spacewire serial point to point protocol and provides fifo ports to the protocol input and output blocks. You can use a physical packet modem terminal node controller tnc, but at 1200, 9600 and even 19,200 windows dsp digital signal processing emulating a modem is superior. Spacewire packets can be received and transmitted without cpu involvement.
This paper describes the remote memory access protocol for spacewire which provides a standard method of reading and writing to registers and memory within a spacewire unit by sending a command and where appropriate receiving a reply across the network. It is also responsible for topology discovery and reporting within the subnet. The destination link is looked up in the routing table. In the reverse direction it removes the protocol header and possibly adds a new header conforming to the subnet the packet is about to enter. The remote memory access protocol rmap provides a means for one spacewire node to write to and read from memory inside another spacewire node. Typically analysis requires sifting through a large volume of traffic to find the packet s of interest. Use of ccsds packets over spacewire to control hardware. The rmap command is sent in a spacewire packet over the spacewire interface. Spacewire covers two of the seven layers of the osi model for communications. Ethernet over spacewiresoftware issues sciencedirect. Spacewire is configured using routers to create a heirarchical pointtopoint system with high speed parallel paths. Rapidly emulate instruments or other spacewire equipment. It is coordinated by the european space agency in collaboration with international space agencies including nasa, jaxa, and rka. Systems research group at the university of dundee have developed software to allow data to be sent over spacewire using standard network protocols such as tcpip, as part of a program of work.
The destination logical address is the spacewire logical address of the destination node. The value of the protocol id is assigned by the spacewire working group and the protocol description published for others to use. Size of ptp packet header is 4 bytes, minimum size of udp packet header is 28 bytes. Identifies network protocol or software module on destination. This may be set to 254 as a default if only path addressing is being used to address the destination node. Spacewire is a spacecraft communication network based in part on the ieee 55 standard of communications. Packet protocol and ecss packet utilization standards specifies command and telemetry packet formats source and destination apid and transaction id fields track communication between applications service type and subtype fields identify packet content version number 0 packet type 1 data field header flag 1 destination application. The packet cargo user defined follows the protocol id. The error can only be sent to the source if the write command header was. The spacewire router of the leon4n2x board ngmp board interprets the address contained within a packet to be sent or received, and realizes the routing of this packet, according to the rules present in the routing table, to one of the existing physical ports. To adapt the existing tas avionics software in order to handle spacewire. Therefore an easy way to assemble the header part and data part to.
It will also reject the command if the information provided does not correspond to a valid rmap command. Finding a specific data point, or pattern of data over time, is at best difficult to identify by hand. With pci spacewire the four channels fit on the bezel. A spacewire endpoint is a hardware or software process that connects. The method employs tcpdump packets and extracts multiple features from the packet headers. Page 8 a packet with destination node address dna 35 is received on spacewire link 1. The aim of these protocols is to support software and. Pci spacewire implements spacewire in a convenient pci format. Spacewire test and development unit developed by stardundee. It is coordinated by the european space agency esa in collaboration with international space agencies including nasa, jaxa, and rka. The protocol identifier, set to 01h, indicates that this spacewire packet is an rmap protocol data unit. Within a spacewire network the nodes are connected through lowcost, low latency, fullduplex, point.
Space plugandplay architecture standard spacewire subnet. I packet level the spacewire packet level defines a packet to have a destination address at the front of the packet, to be followed by one or more data bytes and to be truncated by. The next two standards specify the first two standardised transport protocols. Preparing the rasta software for spacewire backplanes 83.