Space Based Data Centers - Communication Window Length Analysis from an African Perspective

The use of space based data centers (SDBCs) is beneficial for realizing future environment-friendly networks. This is because they do not require the use of earth's water resources for cooling. In addition, SBDCs are important entities in future networks. This is because they are able to provide content access to subscribers in landlocked and disaster prone locations with low access to conventional terrestrial data centers. The research recognizes the importance of the SBDC uptime that should be considered alongside the use of SBDCs. The research aims to analyze the uptime of SBDCs via the consideration of the communication window length considering different ground locations. The ground locations considered have high susceptibility to seismic events and are hosted in Africa. Research shows that a minimum and maximum SBDC uptime are 419.4 minutes, and 435.6 minutes for select African landlocked countries, respectively. The minimum and maximum SBDC uptime are 329.6 minutes, and 435.6 minutes for select African seismic event prone countries, respectively.