The Saratoga protocol developed for use on remote-sensing satellites also has applicability to high-end computing and networking problems - including the Square Kilometre Array.

Saratoga: scalable, speedy data delivery for sensor networks

Lloyd Wood.
Peer-reviewed conference paper, two-page summary of previous work, First Annual CCSR Research Symposium (CRS 2011), Centre for Communication Systems Research, 30 June 2011.

This brief paper outlines the reasons for the creation and adoption of this protocol, discusses how it differs from and complements other protocols, and summarises the worldwide collaboration that is making this development possible.

Saratoga: scalable, speedy data delivery for sensor networks (284K)
Saratoga slides (701K)

arXiv: 1204.3263

Taking Saratoga from Space-Based Ground Sensors to Ground-Based Space Sensors

Lloyd Wood, Charles Smith, Wes Eddy, Will Ivancic, Chris Jackson.
Peer-reviewed conference paper, IEEE Aerospace conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 2011.

This is intended to prototype delivery of data across dedicated astronomy radio telescope networks on the ground, where networked sensors in Very Long Baseline Interferometer (VLBI) instruments generate large amounts of data for processing and can send that data across private IP- and Ethernet-based links at very high rates.

Taking Saratoga from Space-Based Ground Sensors to Ground-Based Space Sensors (266K)
Saratoga sensor slides (3.9M), presented by Will, 9 March 2011.

DOI 10.1109/AERO.2011.5747332 | arXiv:1101.2172

Related presentations:

Challenges in Data Sensing, Transmission and Access posed by New Radio Astronomy Telescopes, Charles Smith, presentation to the Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR), University of Surrey, Guildford, 25 October 2010.

Moving large data sets around: taking Saratoga from space-based ground sensors to ground-based space sensors, Charles Smith, presentation to the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA), Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 9 September 2010.