FlyLISL: Traffic Balance Awared Routing for Large-scale Mixed-Reality Telepresence over Reconfigurable Mega-Constellation

With the emerging telepresence applications, such as meta universe, tele-education and tele-social, there exist a large number of demands for sufficient network resources for visual streaming. However, transmitting the huge volume of the generated visual data through the meandering terrestrial networks would overwhelm the backbone networks and cause non-negligible latency. Mega-constellations, such as OneWeb and Starlink, is developing as one of 'New Infrastructure Construction', and could provide high-capacity and low-latency communication in a world-wide range. However, most of the existing mega-constellation networks' topology is fixed and would easily fall into congestion with the bursting traffic generated by the large-scale telepresence applications. To address this challenge, we propose a reconfigurable mega-constellation architecture by utilizing the permanent and temporary laser inter-satellite links (LISLs). Moreover, based on the mixed-integer linear programming (MILP), we design a routing system, FlyLISL, aiming at balancing the global traffic load by minimizing the maximum link utilization of all LISLs. To evaluate the effectiveness of FlyLISL, we simulate the performance of FlyLISL by comparing with the particle swarm optimization (PSO) and Random based routing strategies. Compared with reference works, FlyLISL reduces the maximum link utilization by up to 72.6%.