The invention relates to a
satellite network reliable routing method on the basis of virtual nodes, which is applied in single-layer routing protocols under similar
polar orbit constellation models and is mainly used to solve the complexity problem that a
satellite node obtains routing information. The method comprises: marking a
satellite by an address of a ground logic area which is covered by the satellite, namely, being endowed with a specific role, knowing the communication conditions of surrounding virtual nodes through sending a link probe packet, generating a
route updating information packet under the virtual nodes, setting flooding hop number as N, then, sending to link interfaces which satisfy the demands, receiving satellite virtual nodes of the
route updating information packet, correcting parameters in the
route updating information packet, extracting reached hop number J of information of each route prefix of the route updating information packet, and obtaining the theoretical shortest
path length L from the satellite virtual nodes to the target ground logic area through a computational method of the ideal shortest
path length, wherein the routing method shields the dynamictopology characteristics of internet, improves the routing astringency, and lowers the time
delay of data packet transfer.