Space-Integrated-Ground Information Networks ›› 2023, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (4): 49-60.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.2096-8930.2023042

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Intelligent Load Balancing Algorithm of Mega Constellation

Shuxin LUO1, Chao ZHANG1, Yong XIAO2, Jianping LIU2   

  1. 1 School of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
    2 State Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics, Xi’an Satellite Control Center, Xi’an 710043, China
  • Revised:2023-11-21 Online:2023-12-01 Published:2023-12-01
  • Supported by:
    National Key Research and Development Program of China(2020YFB1806102);Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi(2023-YBGY-251)

Abstract:

To overcome the local traffic congestion caused by the huge number of satellites in mega-constellation, a load balancing algorithm based on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning was proposed.Firstly, the satellites in the mega constellation were divided into clusters to perform the distributed management of the mega constellation, which could reduce the overhead of whole network.Then, based on the coordinated multi-agent deep reinforcement learning model, routing planning, which could be individually operated by satellites in the mega constellation, was designed to achieve the intra-cluster coordination.Additionally, a cluster state compression mechanism with autoencoder was proposed to compress the state space and improve the efficiency of multi-agent deep reinforcement learning.Finally, simulation results showed that compared with the traditional single-task routing algorithm, the proposed algorithm could increase the transmission success rate by more than 40% and the proposed algorithm could efficiently avoid local traffic congestion.

Key words: mega constellation, multi-agent deep reinforcement learning, load balancing, routing algorithm

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