Distributed Storage Strategy Based on LT Codes in Space Information Network

To solve the limited storage resource and the data storage reliability problem of Space Information Network (SIN), a novel Distributed Storage Strategy based on Luby Transform (LT) codes (DSSLT) is proposed. According to the proposed strategy, source data packets are transmitted quickly to every node in the network based on directional random walk. The ID-based estimation method is used to estimate the global information at the information estimation phase, the values are obtained without excessive random walks. The procedure of XORing packets is reasonable so that the distribution of code degree tends to the desired degree distribution. As presented by the analyses and simulations, random walk steps are greatly reduced compared with a representative distributed storage strategy, while improving the decoding performance.