SKYCASTLE: Taming LEO Mobility to Facilitate Seamless and Low-latency Satellite Internet Services
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| author | Li, Jihao Li, Hewu Lai, Zeqi Wu, Qian Liu, Weisen Wang, Xiaomo Li, Yuanjie Liu, Jun Zhang, Qi |
| author_facet | Li, Jihao Li, Hewu Lai, Zeqi Wu, Qian Liu, Weisen Wang, Xiaomo Li, Yuanjie Liu, Jun Zhang, Qi |
| contents | Emerging integrated space and terrestrial networks (ISTN) built upon low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations aim at providing planet-wide Internet services, not only for residential users, but also for mobile users (e.g., in airplane and cruise scenarios). Efficiently managing global mobility and keeping connections active for mobile users is critical for ISTN operators. However, our quantitative analysis identifies that existing mobility management (MM) schemes suffer from frequent connection interruptions and long latency in ISTN scenarios. The fundamental challenge stems from a unique characteristic of ISTNs: not only users are mobile, but also core network infrastructures (i.e., LEO satellites) are frequently changing their locations in the network. To facilitate seamless and low-latency satellite Internet services, this paper presents SKYCASTLE, a novel network-based global mobility management mechanism. SKYCASTLE incorporates two key techniques to address frequent connection interruptions in ISTNs. First, to reduce the interruption time, SKYCASTLE adopts distributed satellite anchors to track the location changes of mobile nodes, manage handovers and avoid routing convergence. Second, SKYCASTLE leverages an anchor manager to schedule MM functionalities at satellites to reduce deployment costs while guaranteeing low latency. Extensive evaluations combining real constellation information and mobile user trajectories show that: SKYCASTLE can improve up to 55.8% uninterrupted time and reduce 47.8% latency as compared to other existing MM solutions. |
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| spellingShingle | SKYCASTLE: Taming LEO Mobility to Facilitate Seamless and Low-latency Satellite Internet Services Li, Jihao Li, Hewu Lai, Zeqi Wu, Qian Liu, Weisen Wang, Xiaomo Li, Yuanjie Liu, Jun Zhang, Qi Networking and Internet Architecture Emerging integrated space and terrestrial networks (ISTN) built upon low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations aim at providing planet-wide Internet services, not only for residential users, but also for mobile users (e.g., in airplane and cruise scenarios). Efficiently managing global mobility and keeping connections active for mobile users is critical for ISTN operators. However, our quantitative analysis identifies that existing mobility management (MM) schemes suffer from frequent connection interruptions and long latency in ISTN scenarios. The fundamental challenge stems from a unique characteristic of ISTNs: not only users are mobile, but also core network infrastructures (i.e., LEO satellites) are frequently changing their locations in the network. To facilitate seamless and low-latency satellite Internet services, this paper presents SKYCASTLE, a novel network-based global mobility management mechanism. SKYCASTLE incorporates two key techniques to address frequent connection interruptions in ISTNs. First, to reduce the interruption time, SKYCASTLE adopts distributed satellite anchors to track the location changes of mobile nodes, manage handovers and avoid routing convergence. Second, SKYCASTLE leverages an anchor manager to schedule MM functionalities at satellites to reduce deployment costs while guaranteeing low latency. Extensive evaluations combining real constellation information and mobile user trajectories show that: SKYCASTLE can improve up to 55.8% uninterrupted time and reduce 47.8% latency as compared to other existing MM solutions. |
| title | SKYCASTLE: Taming LEO Mobility to Facilitate Seamless and Low-latency Satellite Internet Services |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06623 |