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This article investigates the transmission delay of a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communication system in a bent pipe structure. By employing a stochastic geometry framework, satellites are modeled as spherical binomial point processes…

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Interstellar objects (ISOs) motivate a coupled mission-design and inference question relevant to spacecraft dynamics and control in extreme environments: if volatile-rich, rotating comet-like bodies were used for sustained deep-space…

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Satellite networks are emerging as vital solutions for global connectivity beyond 5G. As companies such as SpaceX, OneWeb, and Amazon are poised to launch a large number of satellites in low Earth orbit, the heightened inter-satellite…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Miyeon Lee , Sucheol Kim , Minje Kim , Dong-Hyun Jung , Junil Choi

Satellite communication offers Internet connectivity to remote locations, such as villages, deserts, mountains, and at sea. However, transmitting content over satellite networks is significantly more expensive than traditional Internet. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Zhiyuan He , Yi Xu , Cheng Luo , Lili Qiu , Yuqing Yang

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks serve as a cornerstone infrastructure for providing ubiquitous connectivity in areas where terrestrial infrastructure is unavailable. With the emergence of Direct-to-Cell (DTC) satellites, these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chaoyu Zhang , Hexuan Yu , Shanghao Shi , Shaoyu Li , Yi Shi , Eric Burger , Y. Thomas Hou , Wenjing Lou

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites play a pivotal role in global connectivity-delivering high-speed Internet, cellular coverage, and massive IoT support. With ever-growing onboard computing and storage resources, LEO satellites herald a new…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhiyuan Zhao , Jiasheng Wu , Shaojie Su , Wenjun Zhu , Yue Gao

We consider Earth satellite orbits in the range of semi-major axes where the perturbing effects of Earth's oblateness and lunisolar gravity are of comparable order. This range covers the medium-Earth orbits (MEO) of the Global Navigation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Ioannis Gkolias , Jerome Daquin , Fabien Gachet , Aaron J. Rosengren

With the rapid development of sixth-generation (6G) communication technology, global communication networks are moving towards the goal of comprehensive and seamless coverage. In particular, low earth orbit (LEO) satellites have become a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Wenjun Lan , Kongyang Chen , Jiannong Cao , Yikai Li , Ning Li , Qi Chen , Yuvraj Sahni

With the rapid growth in data demand and stringent latency requirements of modern applications has driven significant interest in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations as an emerging solution for global Internet coverage. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Mudassar Liaq , Mahyar Tajeri , Peng Hu

Google's congestion control (GCC) has become a cornerstone for real-time video and audio communication, yet its performance remains fragile in emerging Low Earth Orbit (LEO) networks. In this paper, we study the behavior of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Aashish Gottipati , Lili Qiu

A satellite internet provider (e.g., Starlink, OneWeb, O3b mPOWER), despite possessing the capability to provide internet services to on-ground users in a global scale, can dramatically change the way space missions are designed and…

Recently, the rapid development of LEO satellite networks spurs another widespread concern-data processing at satellites. However, achieving efficient computation at LEO satellites in highly dynamic satellite networks is challenging and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Jiasheng Wu , Jingjing Zhang , Zheng Lin , Zhe Chen , Xiong Wang , Wenjun Zhu , Yue Gao

The integration of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations into 5G and Beyond is essential to achieve efficient global connectivity. As LEO satellites are a global infrastructure with predictable dynamics, a pre-planned fair and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Vineet Gala , Federico Chiariotti , Petar Popovski

This letter studies the performance of a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication system where the locations of the LEO satellites are modeled as a binomial point process (BPP) on a spherical surface. In particular, we study the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Anna Talgat , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

With the current trend towards low Earth orbit mega-constellations with inter-satellite links, efficient routing in such highly dynamic space-borne networks is becoming increasingly important. Due to the distinct network topology,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Manuel M. H. Roth , Hartmut Brandt , Hermann Bischl

A Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation consists of a large number of small satellites traveling in space with high mobility and collecting vast amounts of mobility data such as cloud movement for weather forecast, large herds of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Mohamed Elmahallawy , Tie Luo

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites are emerging as key components of 6G networks, with many already deployed to support large-scale Earth observation and sensing related tasks. Federated Learning (FL) presents a promising paradigm for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Zhuocheng Liu , Zhishu Shen , Qiushi Zheng , Tiehua Zhang , Zheng Lei , Jiong Jin

This paper investigates the accuracy of recently proposed stochastic geometry-based modeling of low earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks. In particular, we use the Wasserstein Distance-inspired method to analyze the distances between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Ruibo Wang , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Once deemed a far-fetched vision, emerging deployments of massive satellite constellations will soon offer true global coverage. When these constellations overlay the evolving terrestrial networks, a new hybrid continuum is formed which has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Bassel Al Homssi , Akram Al-Hourani

Reaching all regions of Earth, low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites can harvest delay-tolerant data from remotely located users on Earth without ground infrastructure. This work aims to assess a data harvest network architecture where users…

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