Spatio-Temporal Routing, Redundant Coding and Multipath Scheduling for Deterministic Satellite Network Transmission

Widespread deployment of Small Satellite Networks (SSN) fosters the foreseen integration of space-air-ground networks to provide worldwide Internet access to oceanic and remote airspace. However, the dynamic topology of SSN, the lossy wireless link, and the limited transmission resources induce unprecedented challenges to Deterministic Satellite Network Transmission (DSNT) for the sake of improving the utility of the SSN facility. Motivated by these challenges, this work aims to develop a Deterministic Satellite Network Transmission approach with deterministic Spatio-temporal routing, Redundant coding and Multipath scheduling (DSNT-SRM) for bolstering superior communications of SSN. DSNT-SRM uses the ephemeris information and dynamic resource update mechanism to predict all upcoming communication opportunities and construct the deterministic spatio-temporal routing paths. By combining sparse and redundant network coding mechanisms, DSNT-SRM no longer cares about the arrival of each packet, but the number of coded packets it receives, since the lost packets can be compensated with deterministic redundant traffic. Moreover, the adaptive traffic balance between multiple spatio-temporal paths is designed to provide a deterministic delay guarantee when facing limited node resources and multi-user competition. Extensive experiments show that DSNT-SRM can achieve satisfactory performance improvement in reducing delay and improving delivery rate.