Nowadays, many space projects in universities laboratories are focused on the development of micro-, nano- and pico-satellites for both scientific and educational purposes. Throughout the history of satellite communications, there has always been of high priority to find more efficient techniques of transmitting and receiving data. There are many challenges to be resolved before the ambitious objectives of efficient communications within nanosatellite networks can be achieved, including design of specific protocols that take into consideration the limited onboard resources, the types of errors founded in LEO nanosatellite environment, scalability and synchronization issues