Space Networking Kit: A Novel Simulation Platform for Emerging LEO Mega-constellations

TL;DR

SNK is a new simulation platform that enables detailed evaluation of space-based Internet constellations, including routing, latency, and throughput, supporting both fixed and mobile edge stations.

Contribution

It introduces SNK, a comprehensive simulation tool for space network performance analysis, with real-time visualization and support for diverse network configurations.

Findings

SNK effectively simulates routing and performance metrics.

It demonstrates the impact of network structure and density.

Supports analysis of fixed and mobile edge stations.

Abstract

This paper presents SNK, a novel simulation platform designed to evaluate the network performance of constellation systems for global Internet services. SNK offers realtime communication visualization and supports the simulation of routing between edge node of network. The platform enables the evaluation of routing and network performance metrics such as latency, stretch, network capacity, and throughput under different network structures and density. The effectiveness of SNK is demonstrated through various simulation cases, including the routing between fixed edge stations or mobile edge stations and analysis of space network structures.