Iridium's SBD Direct-IP communications

Iridium's Direct-IP protocol of Short Burst Data communication system.

This library understands and handles the Direct-IP protocol, thus providing the core support for applications such as the one listed below.

Applications

• directip-client: Compose and transmit MT messages, i.e. to remote station. For instance, it could be used to send a message to an underwater glider (a scientific autonomous robot).

• directip-dump: Parse and extract components, such as the IMEI or message-id, from a Direct-IP binary transmission. This is an equivalent to ncdump but for Direct-IP messages.

Minimum supported Rust version

Currently the minimum supported Rust version is 1.60.0

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Alternatives

• sbd-rs: Handles the Mobile-Originated side of the SBD protocol and provides a server to listen for incoming MO messages . It was visionary to use Rust in 2015! (@gadomski, 2015)
• sbd_lib: I believe it contains some elements of the sbd-rs crate, extending to MT messages while using serde to serialize and deserialize. Some interesting uses of the language beyond the basics. (@a1ien, 2018)
• sbd.py This is a Python solution with a lot of information on the protocol and concepts. Very useful independent of the language you will use. (@cxed, 2016)