A Transport Control Protocol for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks Based on Link Information Estimation

Wang Zihan; Zhang Jiao; Zhang Yuan; Pan Tian; Huang Tao

doi:10.7544/issn1000-1239.202220299

Journal of Computer Research and Development > 2023 > 60(8): 1846-1857. > DOI: 10.7544/issn1000-1239.202220299

Wang Zihan, Zhang Jiao, Zhang Yuan, Pan Tian, Huang Tao. A Transport Control Protocol for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks Based on Link Information Estimation[J]. Journal of Computer Research and Development, 2023, 60(8): 1846-1857. DOI: 10.7544/issn1000-1239.202220299

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A Transport Control Protocol for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks Based on Link Information Estimation

College of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876

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Wang Zihan: born in 1999.Master. His main research interests include software-defined networks and satellite network transport control

Zhang Jiao: born in 1986. PhD, associate professor. Senior member of CCF. Her main research interests include data center networking, network function virtualization, and future Internet architecture

Zhang Yuan: born in 1997.Master. His main research interests include software-defined networks and satellite network routing

Pan Tian: born in 1987. PhD, associate professor. His main research interests include network architecture, software-defined networking, programmable data plane, and satellite networks

Huang Tao: born in 1980.PhD, professor. His main research interests include network architecture, software-defined networks, and content-centric networking
Received Date: April 11, 2022
Revised Date: September 26, 2022
Available Online: May 31, 2023

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In recent years, low-orbit satellite constellations have been rapidly developed. They will play an increasingly important role in the military and civilian fields. How to improve the bandwidth utilization of low-orbit satellite networks is of great significance for them to play a valuable role. The traditional TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) protocol and its variants are designed for terrestrial networks. They cannot adapt to low-orbit satellite networks with long delay, high bit error rate, and high dynamic changes. Therefore, in order to fully utilize the bandwidth resource of low-orbit satellite networks and thus enable high-speed services to be carried, new transport control protocol needs to be designed according to the characteristics of low-orbit satellite networks. In this paper, we firstly analyze the characteristics of low-orbit satellite networks and the problems of existing transport control protocols in satellite networks. Then, a novel congestion control algorithm, called DDTCP (delay-differentiated TCP), based on path information estimation and delay differentiation is proposed. The path delay in low-orbit satellite networks may be caused by a variety of factors. Next the delay information of the past period of time in DDTCP is stored at the source. Finally, a path delay differentiation mechanism is proposed and the congestion window will be adjusted according to the classification results. In this way, a reasonable congestion window can be set quickly to avoid link cache overflow or throughput degradation after a change in network conditions. The experimental results show that the new transport control protocol achieves higher and more stable throughput in low-orbit satellite networks, and the throughput improvement in DDTCP is more than 19% compared with that in the traditional congestion control algorithms.
- satellite networks,
- path information estimation,
- delay-differentiated,
- transport control,
- high throughput

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