Routing Decisions Independent of Queuing Delays in Broadband LEO Networks

Author

Jurski, Janusz ; Wozniak, Jozef

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Commun., Gdansk Univ. of Technol., Gdansk, Poland

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of queuing and propagation delays of inter-satellite links (ISLs) in broadband low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks. It is shown that queuing delays are negligible in all reasonable working conditions of the broadband ISL network. This fact makes it possible to simplify the routing protocols in such networks and permits using already known multi-commodity flow solutions for routing. The performance of such solutions is evaluated. The evaluation shows a significant increase in the overall network capacity in comparison to the traditional shortest-path approach.

Keywords

broadband networks; queueing theory; routing protocols; satellite links; broadband ISL network; broadband LEO network; intersatellite links; low-Earth orbit satellite network; multicommodity flow solution; propagation delay; queuing delay; routing protocol; Artificial satellites; Broadband communication; Low earth orbit satellites; Narrowband; Network topology; Propagation delay; Proposals; Queueing analysis; Routing protocols; Satellite communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2009. GLOBECOM 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1930-529X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4148-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425658

Filename

5425658