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Satellite communication is one of the key technologies that is enabling next-generation networks. However, nearest-satellite-supported downlink transmission may not meet a user's requirements due to limited signal strength, especially in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Xiangyu Li , Bodong Shang

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for downlink transmission from a satellite swarm towards a ground station (GS). These swarms have the benefit of much higher spatial separation in the transmit antennas than traditional satellites…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Maik Röper , Bho Matthiesen , Dirk Wübben , Petar Popovski , Armin Dekorsy

As LEO/VLEO satellites offer many attractive features, such as low transmission delay, they are expected to be an integral part of 6G. Global entanglement distribution over LEO and VLEO satellites network must reckon with satellite movement…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-07-24 A. Sen , C. Sumnicht , S. Choudhuri , A. Chang , G. Xue

One of upcoming mobility enhancements in 5G-Advanced networks is to execute handover based on Layer 1 (L1) measurements using the so called lower layer mobility procedure. In this paper, we provide a system model for lower layer mobility…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Alperen Gündogan , Akın Badalıoglu , Panagiotis Spapis , Ahmad Awada

The landscape of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) is expanding with the emergence of low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations such as Pulsar, which are expected to play a key role in the future of positioning, navigation, and timing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Jérôme Leclère , Thyagaraja Marathe , Tyler G. R. Reid

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications (SATCOM) offers high-throughput, low-latency global connectivity to a very large number of users. To accommodate this demand with limited hardware resources, beam hopping (BH) has emerged as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Juha Park , Seokho Kim , Wonjae Shin , H. Vincent Poor

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

Direct-to-cell connectivity between satellites and common terrestrial handheld devices represents an essential feature of 6G. The industry is considering different type of constellations but using classical single satellite solutions based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Diego Tuzi , Thomas Delamotte , Andreas Knopp

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are evolving from communication relays into autonomous platforms operating in increasingly congested and contested environments. Since uplinks to ground stations can be severed or jammed,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tianyi Sun , Shuo Liu , Minghui Xu , Xiuzhen Cheng

This letter characterizes the contact angle distribution based on the condition that the relay low earth orbit (LEO) satellite is in the communication range of both the ground transmitter and the ground receiver. As one of the core…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Ruibo Wang , Anna Talgat , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite mega-constellations aim to enable high-speed Internet for numerous users anywhere on Earth. To safeguard their network infrastructure in congested outer space, they perform automatic orbital maneuvers to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yimei Chen , Yuanjie Li , Hewu Li , Lixin Liu , Li Ouyang , Jiabo Yang , Junyi Li , Jianping Wu , Qian Wu , Jun Liu , Zeqi Lai

The revolution in the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks will bring changes on their communication models and a shift from the classical bent-pipe architectures to more sophisticated networking platforms. Thanks to technological…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Kürşat Tekbıyık , Güneş Karabulut Kurt , Ali Rıza Ekti , Halim Yanikomeroglu

We propose an auction-based mechanism to improve the efficiency of low earth orbit satellite communication systems. The mechanism allows the ground stations to bid for downlink resources such as spectrum, satellite links, or radios, without…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Lin Cheng , Bernardo A. Huberman

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites are a promising technology for providing low-latency, high-data-rate, and wide-coverage communication services. However, with growing demand for data transmission, future non-terrestrial networks (NTNs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Ziang Liu , Wonjae Shin , Bruno Clerckx

The nearby space surrounding the Earth is densely populated by artificial satellites and instruments, whose orbits are distributed within the Low-Earth-Orbit region (LEO), ranging between 90 and 2 000 $km$ of altitude. As a consequence of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-10 Alessandra Celletti , Cătălin Galeş

In this paper, we investigate the effect of the strong time-varying transmission distance on the performance of the low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite-terrestrial transmission (STT) system. We propose a new analytical framework using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Yuanyuan Ma , Tiejun Lv , Tingting Li , Gaofeng Pan , Yunfei Chen , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We consider the downlink of a cellular network with multiple cells and multi-antenna base stations, including a realistic distance-dependent pathloss model, clusters of cooperating cells, and general "fairness" requirements. Beyond Monte…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hoon Huh , Giuseppe Caire , Sung-Hyun Moon , Young-Tae Kim , Inkyu Lee

In order to improve the uplink performance of future cellular networks, the idea to decouple the downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) association has recently been shown to provide significant gain in terms of both coverage and rate performance.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Mudasar Bacha , Yueping Wu , Bruno Clerckx

Unlike in terrestrial cellular networks, certain frequency bands for low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems have thus far been allocated on a non-exclusive basis. In this context, systems that launch their satellites earlier (referred to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Jeong Min Kong , Eunsun Kim , Ian P. Roberts