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Advances in digital satellite communication technologies have allowed the use of broadcast-only satellites to provide Internet services. These systems, while having many unique benefits, bring about a new type of link technology — unidirectional links. Traditionally, most Internet routing protocol designs and their implementations assume that every link is bi-directional. With these broadcast-based satellite systems, the assumption is no longer true. In this chapter, we describe the challenges of dynamic asymmetric routing with unidirectional links, and explain a practical solution that has been adopted by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).
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Zhang, Y. (2003). Direct Broadcast Satellites and Asymmetric Routing. In: Zhang, Y. (eds) Internetworking and Computing Over Satellite Networks. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0431-3_4
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