Towards Software Defined SpaceWire Networks

In the recent few years, Software Defined Network (SDN) brings a revolution to network technology. Comparing with the traditional techniques, SDN has several distinguished features, including fine-grained flows management, global view of the network and centralized control, etc. Since SpaceWire is becoming a standard for high-speed links and networks for use onboard spacecraft, we argue that adopting the idea of SDN into SpaceWire networks will bring several advantages, including open network topology, fine-grained control and QoS, etc.