Joint Optimization of Handoff and Video Rate in LEO Satellite Networks

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Autores principales: Park, Kyoungjun, He, Zhiyuan, Luo, Cheng, Xu, Yi, Qiu, Lili, Ge, Changhan, Muaz, Muhammad
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Publicado: 2025
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author Park, Kyoungjun
He, Zhiyuan
Luo, Cheng
Xu, Yi
Qiu, Lili
Ge, Changhan
Muaz, Muhammad
author_facet Park, Kyoungjun
He, Zhiyuan
Luo, Cheng
Xu, Yi
Qiu, Lili
Ge, Changhan
Muaz, Muhammad
contents Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communication is a promising approach to providing Internet connectivity to users in many remote areas. As videos are likely to account for most traffic in the LEO satellite network, as in the rest of the Internet, this work introduces a novel video-aware mobility management framework tailored for LEO satellite networks. Utilizing simulation models alongside real-world datasets, we show the importance of handoff strategy and throughput prediction algorithms in single-user and multi-user video streaming scenarios. Motivated by these observations, we propose a set of novel algorithms that can jointly choose the satellite and video bitrate to optimize the Quality of Experience (QoE). We first develop Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) based algorithms for a single user, and then extend them to accommodate multiple competing users that may share the same satellite. We introduce centralized training and distributed inference for our RL design, enabling a distributed policy informed by a global perspective. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed models using trace-driven simulation and testbed experiments. We share our code and data with the research community.
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spellingShingle Joint Optimization of Handoff and Video Rate in LEO Satellite Networks
Park, Kyoungjun
He, Zhiyuan
Luo, Cheng
Xu, Yi
Qiu, Lili
Ge, Changhan
Muaz, Muhammad
Networking and Internet Architecture
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communication is a promising approach to providing Internet connectivity to users in many remote areas. As videos are likely to account for most traffic in the LEO satellite network, as in the rest of the Internet, this work introduces a novel video-aware mobility management framework tailored for LEO satellite networks. Utilizing simulation models alongside real-world datasets, we show the importance of handoff strategy and throughput prediction algorithms in single-user and multi-user video streaming scenarios. Motivated by these observations, we propose a set of novel algorithms that can jointly choose the satellite and video bitrate to optimize the Quality of Experience (QoE). We first develop Model Predictive Control (MPC) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) based algorithms for a single user, and then extend them to accommodate multiple competing users that may share the same satellite. We introduce centralized training and distributed inference for our RL design, enabling a distributed policy informed by a global perspective. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed models using trace-driven simulation and testbed experiments. We share our code and data with the research community.
title Joint Optimization of Handoff and Video Rate in LEO Satellite Networks
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04586