Title
Controller Placement in Software-Defined Satellite Networks
Abstract
Software-defined satellite networks (SDSN) move the control logic off the forwarding devices and into the external controller, which achieves network flexibility, programmability, evolvability, and visibility. The controller placement in SDSN, as the foundation of SDSN implementation, has been seldom studied. In this paper, we proposed a three-layer hierarchical controller architecture for software-defined geostationary earth orbit/low earth orbit (GEO/LEO) satellite networks. Specifically, network operations control center (NOCC) is deployed as super controller, GEO satellites are domain controllers, and a part of LEO satellites are slave controllers. Based on this architecture, we further proposed a slave controller selection strategy to facilitate cost reduction and stability enhancement. The feasibility of this controller architecture is validated in terms of the maximum switch to controller and controller to controller delays. Besides, the influences of service request distribution on these two control delays are analyzed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/MSN.2018.000-4
2018 14th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN)
Keywords
Field
DocType
software-defined satellite networks, controller placement, three-layer hierarchical architecture, delay
Satellite,Control theory,Visibility,Computer science,Network operations center,Software,Control logic,Computer hardware,Cost reduction,Geostationary orbit,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-0548-2
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuang Xu127432.53
Xingwei Wang21025154.16
Bangyi Gao310.35
Mingwei Zhang4102.52
Min Huang5596.77