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Today's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks, exemplified by SpaceX's Starlink, play a crucial role in delivering global internet access to millions of users. However, managing the dynamic and expansive nature of these networks poses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Dara Ron , Faisal Ahmed Yusufzai , Sebastian Kwakye , Satyaki Roy , Nishanth Sastry , Vijay K. Shah

In this paper, we review well-known handovers algorithms in satellite environment. The modern research trends and contributions are proposed and summarized in order to overcome their considering problems in satellite-air-ground integrated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Soohyun Park , Joongheon Kim

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks are an important part of the global communication infrastructure today. Despite ongoing efforts to improve their resilience, they remain vulnerable to component damage and deorbiting under harsh…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Eunju Kang , Alagappan Ramanathan , Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi

In this paper, we propose a terrestrial-satellite network (TSN) architecture to integrate the ultra-dense low earth orbit (LEO) networks and the terrestrial networks to achieve efficient data offloading. In TSN, each ground user can access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Yonghui Li , Geoffrey Ye Li

A critical problem in global telecommunication is the drastic increase in data volume transmitted and received across the world. To address the need for scalable telecommunication solutions in light of growing data volume, the BMW Group and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Sean Batir , Nicholas Humann , Carmel Ortiz , David Bettinger , Susanne Heger , Bennie Vorster

Offering space-based Internet services with mega-constellations of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites is a promising solution to connecting the unconnected. It can complement the coverage of terrestrial networks to help bridge the digital…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xingqin Lin , Stefan Cioni , Gilles Charbit , Nicolas Chuberre , Sven Hellsten , Jean-Francois Boutillon

Recently, a large number of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites have been launched and deployed successfully in space by commercial companies, such as SpaceX. Due to multimodal sensors equipped by the LEO satellites, they serve not only for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Zheng Lin , Zhe Chen , Zihan Fang , Xianhao Chen , Xiong Wang , Yue Gao

In this paper, we investigate an important research problem facing the upcoming satellite Internet: from a network perspective, how many satellites exactly do we need to construct a survivable and performant LSN? To answer this question, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zeqi Lai , Yibo Wang , Hewu Li , Qian Wu , Qi Zhang , Yunan Hou , Jun Liu , Yuanjie Li

In this paper, we consider downlink low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems where multiple LEO satellites are uniformly distributed over a sphere at a certain altitude according to a homogeneous binomial point process (BPP).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Dong-Hyun Jung , Joon-Gyu Ryu , Woo-Jin Byun , Junil Choi

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks with mega constellations have the potential to provide 5G and beyond services ubiquitously. However, these networks may introduce mutual interference to both satellite and terrestrial networks,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-23 Daeun Kim , Jeonghun Park , Jinseok Choi , Namyoon Lee

Ensuring network resilience in 6G and beyond is essential to maintain service continuity during base station (BS) outages due to failures, disasters, attacks, or energy-saving operations. This paper proposes a novel resilience optimization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Dinh-Hieu Tran , Nguyen Van Huynh , Van Nhan Vo , Madyan Alsenwi , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites are being considered for expanding legacy terrestrial cellular networks. The end users may not be able to optimize satellite orbits and constellations, however, they can optimize locations of ground stations…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Iestyn Morgan-Jones , Pavel Loskot

This paper explores the evolution of Radio Access Network (RAN) architectures and their integration into Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) to address escalating mobile traffic demands. Focusing on Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites as key…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Siva Satya Sri Ganesh Seeram , Luca Feltrin , Mustafa Ozger , Shuai Zhang , Cicek Cavdar

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites has brought about significant improvements in wireless communications, characterized by low latency and reduced transmission loss compared to geostationary orbit (GSO) satellites. Ultra-dense LEO satellites…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Trinh Van Chien , Nguyen Minh Quan , Tri Nhu Do , Cuong Le , Tan N. Nguyen , Symeon Chatzinotas

This paper presents a study of an integrated satellite-terrestrial network, where Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellites are used to provide the backhaul link between base stations (BSs) and the core network. The mobility of LEO satellites raises…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Hung Nguyen-Kha , Vu Nguyen Ha , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas , Joel Grotz

In this paper, we investigate the issue of massive access in a beyond fifth-generation (B5G) multi-beam low earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet of things (IoT) network in the presence of channel phase uncertainty due to channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Jianhang Chu , Xiaoming Chen , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper proposes a graph neural network (GNN)-based space multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) framework, named GSM, for direct-to-cell communications, aiming to achieve distributed coordinated beamforming for low Earth orbit (LEO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Sai Xu , Yanan Du , Gaojie Chen , Rahim Tafazolli

This paper investigates satellite navigation and communication systems in both low-Earth-orbit (LEO) and medium-Earth-orbit (MEO) satellites, which systematically outlines the fundamental principles of satellite navigation systems (SNS),…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Tianwei Hou , Da Guan , Yu Zhang , Anna Li , Arumugam Nallanathan

6th generation (6G) communication research is currently focusing on non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) to promote ubiquitous and ultra-high-capacity global connectivity. Specifically, multi-layered hierarchical networks, i.e., the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Dengke Wang , Marco Giordani , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Michele Zorzi

As low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems are gaining increasing popularity, new theoretical methodologies are required to investigate such networks' performance at large. This is because deterministic and location-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Niloofar Okati , Taneli Riihonen , Dani Korpi , Ilari Angervuori , Risto Wichman