COST Action 272 “Packet-Oriented Service Delivery via Satellite” Ant Routing Concepts for Dynamic Meshed Satellite Constellations

Ant Routing Concepts for Dynamic Meshed Satellite Constellations

We propose ant routing as a powerful means to enhance communications in meshed regular and irregular satellite constellations. Ant routing resembles basic mechanisms from distributed swarm intelligence in biological systems, and turns out to become an appealing solution when routing becomes a crucial problem in a complex network scenario, where traditional (deterministic) techniques either fail...

COST Action 272 “Packet-Oriented Service Delivery via Satellite” Signaling for Inter-satellite Link Routing TD-02-009-P

This paper presents and evaluates signaling schemes for distributing information about the state of the network in a constellation of non geostationary satellites. Because routing decisions are more accurate when the state of the network is taken into account, it is necessary to devise signaling schemes that transport such state information without giving away too much network capacity.

COST Action 272 “Packet-Oriented Service Delivery via Satellite” On TCP traffic support over Bandwidth on Demand GEO satellite networks

A Dynamic On-demand Multipath Routing Algorithm for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks

Compared with Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite systems and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite systems, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite systems provide lower propagation delay as well as higher throughput. Because of these reasons, LEO satellite systems can play a pivotal role in providing services to areas where there is no substantial terrestrial infrastructure. In this paper, a novel kind ...

A Topology Control Strategy with Reliability Assurance for Satellite Cluster Networks in Earth Observation

This article investigates the dynamic topology control problemof satellite cluster networks (SCNs) in Earth observation (EO) missions by applying a novel metric of stability for inter-satellite links (ISLs). The properties of the periodicity and predictability of satellites' relative position are involved in the link cost metric which is to give a selection criterion for choosing the most relia...