Title
Routing in a Delay Tolerant Network with Spiking Neurons
Date Issued
01 May 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
University of Houston
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
We consider a dynamic reservoir of spiking neurons to generate routing decisions for bundle transmissions in a delay tolerant network (DTN). The reservoir transforms the context, as described by selected system metrics, and the temporal information that is contained in the network's contact list into a high-dimensional feature space, which allows quickly determining the next-hop for bundles whenever needed. The method can be of particular interest for space networks, which are characterized by resource-constrained nodes, known contact opportunities, and dynamic features, such as the state of the channels and buffers. The learning process occurs offline using linear regression and involves a modest computational effort. After training, the spiking neural network can be used to achieve an efficient network operation, allowing to substitute the costly per-bundle shortest path computation with a simple "recall" action of the best next-hop for the current conditions as stored in the reservoir. We investigate different methods to translate the contact list information into a suitable input for the reservoir and evaluate the approach considering the impact of the readout function size applied to GEO-LEO DTN scenarios.
Volume
2019-May
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85070201350
ISSN of the container
15503607
ISBN of the container
9781538680889
Conference
IEEE International Conference on Communications: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2019
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by an Early Career Faculty grant from NASA's Space Technology Research Grants Program.
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