LMSR: A Low-Jitter Multiple Slots Routing Algorithm in LEO Satellite Networks

In recent years, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation based networks have attracted wide attention from both the academia and the industry. Broadband access and backhaul becomes a typical application for LEO satellite networks. However, the high-speed motion of satellites brings periodic fluctuation of delays, which is a great violation to the Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning. In this work, inspired by the success of Software Defined Networking (SDN), and considering the dynamics of LEO satellite networks, we propose a low-jitter multiple slots routing in LEO satellite networks to provide low-jitter end-to-end delay path computing and control. The proposed multiple slots routing optimization mechanism takes account of the topology shift as well as the dynamic propagation delay across multiple topology snapshots, and thus achieves low-jitter performance. The performance improvement of the proposed mechanism is validated by the simulation, which promises the value of jitter under 30 ms.