Title
Multi-Commodity Flow Routing for Large-Scale LEO Satellite Networks Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
University of Houston
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
With the explosive growth of low earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks, such as Starlink, satellite communication has lower latency and can achieve high-speed transmission than before. However, the time-variant topology during all network lifetimes makes the routing problem in the LEO satellite networks challenging. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the deep reinforcement learning-based satellite routing (DRL-SR) method to tackle the multi-commodity flow routing problem in the LEO satellite networks. Given the current state of the satellite network environment, the satellite operation center will determine how to route the requests to the matching destinations. Particularly, the single agent in our DRL-SR approach can determine the multiple next hops as actions for all the corresponding requests each timeslot. Finally, simulation results show that our proposed algorithm yields lower latency than the shortest path approach.
Start page
626
End page
631
Volume
2022-April
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85130750252
ISSN of the container
15253511
ISBN of the container
9781665442664
Conference
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC: 2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2022
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