A Novel Cross-Layer Model Based Communication Network for Satellite Constellations

Abstract

With the rapid development of satellite technologies, ten of thousands satellites are emitted. To construct several mega constellations providing high-performance communications network with global coverage becomes a reality. Such space-based communications network can support many different applications including Internet access, mobile telecommunications and frequency sensing and so on. The focus of this paper is to introduce a communications network structure working for satellite constellations to realize the above applications. In this paper, we utilize a part of OSI model as cross-layer model system. In this system, each layer share information with each other, and the decision of individual layer contains whole information. As a result, our design can realize low-cost and high-performance simultaneous to solve the complex requirements in the communication of satellite Constellations. Such cross-layer model in aerospace network application is the originality of this paper.