Toward Intelligent Cross-Domain Resource Coordinate Scheduling for Satellite Networks

The new generation satellite network is a comprehensive service system that can provide communication, observation, navigation, and other functions. Typically, a system with a specific service function is defined as a domain and the supply and demand relationship of resources, such as communication, storage, and energy resources, are unbalanced among domains. Therefore, it is nontrivial to accurately characterize the cross-domain resource state and coordinate the data transmission policy of interrelated satellites from different domains to make full use of the resources in each domain aiming at improving the resource utilization ratio (RUR) of the whole network. To this end, this paper investigates the cross-domain resource scheduling (CDRS) problem in satellite networks aiming at maximizing the total amount of downloaded transmitted data. We start with the orbit motion law of satellites and construct the satellite orbit feature matrix of each domain to design a hierarchical sparse resource representation (HSRR) scheme to accurately characterize the resource state of each domain in real-time with low complexity. Further, based on the HSRR, we develop a cross-domain dynamic multi-resource scheduling algorithm to solve the CDRS problem by introducing the advantage factor and policy-oriented hyper-parameter. The algorithm can make full use of the resources in each domain to achieve efficient CDRS by dynamically adjusting the data transmission policy of satellites among domains. Simulation results show that the greater the service demand and resource difference among domains, the more significant the performance improvement brought by CDRS, and compared with the existing algorithms, the RUR and resource utilization efficiency have been significantly improved.