NASA Challenge: Infographic/Animation to Help Explain Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) Protocol
- Status: Closed
- Prize: $500
- Entries Received: 27
- Winner: kiamkmccue
Contest Brief
NASA Challenge: Infographic/Animation to Help Explain Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) Protocol
This is a NASA Challenge to develop graphic elements or animation to help explain the Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) Protocol and how it improves communications. The world’s leading space agencies have agreed that future spacecraft will communicate with Earth and among themselves using a new Solar System Internet (SSI) based on Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) technology. DTN is a protocol suite that extends the terrestrial Internet capabilities into highly stressed data communication environments where the conventional Internet does not work well. These environments are typically subject to frequent disruptions, unidirectional links, possibly long delays and high error rates. The DTN architecture is described in RFC 4838 (attached).
The attached files and links provide information about the Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) Protocol, how it works, and how it can be used.
For this challenge, the benefits of DTN need to be effectively conveyed to individuals at different levels of management and with different technical backgrounds. Pictures or animated graphics can make a huge difference in conveying a concept to those less familiar with it.
Requirements:
- Submissions must provide imagery/graphics that convey what Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) is and how it improves communications in a delay/disruption prone environment.
- Submissions must provide at least one product suitable for inclusion in a slide deck (i.e., message is still conveyed when sized down for presentation), and at least one product suitable for presentation on a poster-board.
- Submissions must relate the use of the DTN protocol to planned NASA missions.
- If selected as a winning submission, high resolution source graphics and/or multimedia files must be provided during handover. These files must be provided in standard, widely available/used formats.
Judging Criteria
- Visual Appeal: Submission is comprised using an attractive color scheme
- Impact: Submission is novel, clever, or memorable.
- Completeness: Submission elements communicate the usefulness and workings of DTN.
- Technically Sufficient: Submission provides the elements needed for both presentation formats and poster formats and are provided in the necessary standard file formats.
There may be multiple prizes awarded on this contest. The main winner will be awarded the full prize amount listed. Additional winners may be offered lesser prize amounts depending on the submission (i.e. a high quality or novel submission that only deals with a portion what DTN can do).
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Employer Feedback
“Kiam M. did an outstanding job of creating an animation to explain our NASA Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking protocol. This was a contest and this animation was selected from 139 entries. Kiam M. was very responsive to feedback and provided an excellent final product.”
nasacoeci, United States.
Top entries from this contest
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kiamkmccue United Kingdom
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