Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, Mobimedia 2020, 27-28 August 2020, Cyberspace

Research Article

A resilient multi-path routing for the SDN based space-based network

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.27-8-2020.2294343,
        author={Feihu  Dong and Xi  Chen and Yasheng  Zhang and Zhongyuan  Jiang and Ci  He},
        title={A resilient multi-path routing for the SDN based space-based network},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, Mobimedia 2020, 27-28 August 2020, Cyberspace},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={MOBIMEDIA},
        year={2020},
        month={11},
        keywords={multi-path routing sdn space-based network resilience},
        doi={10.4108/eai.27-8-2020.2294343}
    }
    
  • Feihu Dong
    Xi Chen
    Yasheng Zhang
    Zhongyuan Jiang
    Ci He
    Year: 2020
    A resilient multi-path routing for the SDN based space-based network
    MOBIMEDIA
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.27-8-2020.2294343
Feihu Dong1, Xi Chen2, Yasheng Zhang3, Zhongyuan Jiang2,*, Ci He4
  • 1: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  • 2: Xidian University
  • 3: Science and Technology on Communication Networks Laboratory
  • 4: The 54th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation
*Contact email: zyjiang@xidian.edu.cn

Abstract

To adapt the development of global communication and the rapid upgradation of communication technology(e.g. 4G to 5G), the space-based network (SBN) is regarded as a very important networking architecture to improve the efficiency of data communication. However, with the increasing need of bandwidth, the SBN faces many open challenges: 1) high update or deployment cost and complex implementations; 2) low robustness or resilience against the dynamic network structure changes. In this work, we first incorporate the SDN (Software Defined Network) architecture into the SBN to ensure the feasible implementation by separating the control panel and the data panel. Secondly, we present a new multi-path routing (MPR) to adapt the fast network structure change and enhance the network resilience. Finally, we compose extensive experiments on both random networks and scale-free networks to verify the effectiveness of our MPR mechanism which has potential applications in the future deployment of SBN.