A Dynamic Even Distribution Resource Scheduling Mechanism Combined with
Network Coding for Inter-LEO Satellite Networks
Abstract
LEO satellite networks have risen to the forefront of study with the
dynamic topology changes, varying service requirements and intermittent
inter-satellite links (ISLs). Resource scheduling mechanism is the key
to determining communication efficiency. However, the state-of-the-art
cannot achieve high resource efficiency under both heavy and burst
traffic loads, and the applicability of parameters design is
insufficient under intermittent ISLs. Considering this, we propose a
dynamic even distribution mechanism combined with network coding DENC.
This novel mechanism obtains the service requirements and allocates
resources dynamically through the even distribution algorithm to balance
between network maintenance overhead and idle resources waste, and
improves the success probability of transmission based on network coding
to balance between retransmission and redundancy. In this paper, we
establish performance analysis and resource efficiency optimization
models to optimize the parameters such as maintenance frequency and
coding coefficient. Besides, we construct a system-level simulation
platform. Mathematical and simulation results indicate that the DENC
performs better than SAHN-MAC, ICSMA, CSMA-TDMA and HTM under dynamic
service requirements and intermittent ISLs, and the resource efficiency
can be improved by about 130%.