Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite networkscan provide wider service coverage and lower latencythan traditional terrestrial networks, which haveattracted considerable attention. However, the unevendistribution of human p...Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite networkscan provide wider service coverage and lower latencythan traditional terrestrial networks, which haveattracted considerable attention. However, the unevendistribution of human population and data trafficon the ground incurs unbalanced traffic load inLEO satellite networks. To this end, we proposea load-balancing routing algorithm for LEO satellitenetworks based on ant colony optimization and reinforcementlearning. In the ant colony algorithm,we improve the pheromone update rule by introducingload-aware heuristic information, e.g., the currentnode transmission overhead, delay and load status, andreinforcement learning-based link quality evaluation.It enables the routing algorithm to select the lightlyloaded node as the next hop to balance the networkload. We simulate and verify the proposed algorithmusing the NS2 simulation platform, and the resultsshow that our algorithm improves the data delivery ratioand throughput while ensuring lower latency andtransmission overhead.展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62273107,61702127,62272113)Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou(Grant No.201804010461).
文摘Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite networkscan provide wider service coverage and lower latencythan traditional terrestrial networks, which haveattracted considerable attention. However, the unevendistribution of human population and data trafficon the ground incurs unbalanced traffic load inLEO satellite networks. To this end, we proposea load-balancing routing algorithm for LEO satellitenetworks based on ant colony optimization and reinforcementlearning. In the ant colony algorithm,we improve the pheromone update rule by introducingload-aware heuristic information, e.g., the currentnode transmission overhead, delay and load status, andreinforcement learning-based link quality evaluation.It enables the routing algorithm to select the lightlyloaded node as the next hop to balance the networkload. We simulate and verify the proposed algorithmusing the NS2 simulation platform, and the resultsshow that our algorithm improves the data delivery ratioand throughput while ensuring lower latency andtransmission overhead.
