Communication_channels
Project Development Idea: Communication channels
Simulate communication between:
Settlement and Settlement
Settlement and Vehicles
Settlement and Earth
An IRC style communication channel could be created to exchange information between the previously listed parties.
Holographic conference, video conference...
relay stations with message buffers, connected to message lasers, radio antennae, satellite dishes, surface cable, ground cable, fiber optics, or other exotic transmitters. communication channels can be noisy, intermittent, broken, eclipsed, line-of-sight. imagine radio relays in dirigibles, radio towers on mountains, geostationary com sats. light speed delays, especially when communicating off planet. message buffering in relays until channel/connection can be reestablished if intermittent or interrupted (dust storm, solar flare, line-of-sight interruption). message transfer protocol to acknowledge receipt. redundant message routing through different channels, broadcasting, tightcasting, encryption, jamming, spoofing, authentication, ...
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