On-Demand Routing in LEO Satellite Systems

Author

Karapantazis, S. ; Papapetrou, Evangelos ; Pavlidou, F.-N.

Author_Institution

Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki

fYear

2007

fDate

24-28 June 2007

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

31

Abstract

In this paper, a location-assisted on-demand routing (LAOR) protocol for low earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems is proposed and evaluated. This protocol can be viewed as a variant of the well-known ad-hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) routing protocol, tailored to the requirements imposed by the characteristics of LEO satellite systems´ topology. The LAOR protocol is assessed for different link-cost metrics and compared to centralized routing protocols proposed in the literature thus far. Simulation studies further document and confirm the positive characteristics of the proposed protocol.

Keywords

routing protocols; satellite communication; LEO satellite systems; ad-hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol; link-cost metrics; low earth orbit satellite systems; on-demand routing protocol; Artificial satellites; Communications Society; IP networks; Low earth orbit satellites; Narrowband; Network topology; Propagation delay; Routing protocols; Telephony; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2007. ICC '07. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Glasgow

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0353-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2007.14

Filename

4288685