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In this paper we optimize constellation sets to be used for channels affected by phase noise. The main objective is to maximize the achievable mutual information of the constellation under a given power constraint. The mutual information…

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There is ever growing demand for satellite constellations that perform global positioning, remote sensing, earth-imaging and relay communication. In these highly prized orbits, there are many obsolete and abandoned satellites and components…

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Data Fusion of wireless sensors is a common technique employed in many communication systems. This work focuses on incorporating the principles of non-orthogonal-multiple-access (NOMA) to optimize error performance directly in the choice of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Luca Sardellitti , Glen Takahara , Fady Alajaji

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been proposed as a promising technology to collect data from IoT devices and relay it to the network. In this work, we are interested in scenarios where the data is updated periodically, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Mouhamed Naby Ndiaye , El Houcine Bergou , Mounir Ghogho , Hajar El Hammouti

Satellite networks are playing an important role in realizing global seamless connectivity in beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive analytical framework to assess the performance of hybrid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Houcem Ben Salem , Nour Kouzayha , Ammar EL Falou , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Satellite constellations are transforming space systems from isolated spacecraft into networked, software-defined platforms capable of on-orbit perception, decision making, and adaptation. Yet much of the existing AI studies remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ziyang Wang

Channels of satellite communication are usually modeled as Rician fading channels with very large Rician factor or Gaussian channels. Therefore, when a legitimate user is close to an eavesdropping user, the legitimate channel is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Shuai Han , Xiangxue Tai , Weixiao Meng , Cheng Li

In unmanned space exploration, the cooperation among space robots requires advanced communication techniques. In this paper, we propose a communication optimization scheme for a specific cooperation system named the "mother-daughter…

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Age-of-Information (AoI) is a recently proposed metric for quantifying the freshness of information from the UE's perspective in a communication network. Recently, Kadota et al. [1] have proposed an index-type approximately optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Arunabh Srivastava , Abhishek Sinha , Krishna Jagannathan

Multiple planets undergoing disk migration may be captured into a chain of mean-motion resonances with the innermost planet parked near the disk's inner edge. Subsequent dynamical evolution may disrupt these resonances, leading to the…

Driven by both technological development and practical demands, the low-altitude economy relying on low-altitude aircrafts (LAAs) is booming. However, neither satellites nor terrestrial fifth-generation (5G) networks alone can effectively…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yanmin Wang , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Baoquan Ren , Qingqing Wu , Cheng-Xiang Wang

Free-space optical inter-satellite links (OISLs) enable high-capacity space communications but require precise Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking (PAT) between links. Current scheduling approaches often overlook or oversimplify PAT delays,…

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Satellite missions demand ever greater connectivity, especially in the LEO regime. In this paper, we introduce the new mega-constellation services in space paradigm: we show that megaconstellations, deployed to offer innovative services to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 G. Maiolini Capez , M. A. Caceres , C. P. Bridges , S. Frey , R. Armellin , R. Garello , P. Bargellini

Prior studies on mixed near-field and far-field communications have focused exclusively on single-cell scenarios, where both near-field and far-field users are served by the same base station (BS), leading to intra-cell mixed-field…

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Reliable communication over a discrete memoryless channel with the help of a relay has aroused interest due to its widespread applications in practical scenarios. By considering the system with a mismatched decoder, previous works have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Xinwei Li , Lingyi Chen , Shitong Wu , Huihui Wu , Hao Wu , Wenyi Zhang

Satellite communication by leveraging the use of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites is expected to play an essential role in future communication systems through providing ubiquitous and continuous wireless connectivity. This thus has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jingwei Zhang , Dali Qin , Chuili Kong , Feiran Zhao , Rong Li , Jun Wang , Ye Wang

Accurate positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) are crucial for upcoming lunar surface missions. Lunar satellite navigation systems are being developed, but lack coverage during early deployment phases. Hybrid lunar PNT combining…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Robert Pöhlmann , Emanuel Staudinger , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

Communication reliability improving is one of most important research requirements in cognitive networks, as 5G communications technology rapidly develop nowadays. In this paper, we propose generalized optimal cloud-based region relays…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 He Huang , Chaowei Yuan

DVB-S2 and DVB-SH satellite broadcasting standards currently deploy 16- and 32-amplitude phase shift keying (APSK) modulation using the consultative committee for space data systems (CCSDS) mapping. Such standards also include hierarchical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Matteo Anedda , Alessio Meloni , Maurizio Murroni

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided data collection is a new and promising application in many practical scenarios. In this work, we study the age-optimal trajectory planning problem in UAV-enabled wireless sensor networks, where a UAV is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Juan Liu , Xijun Wang , Bo Bai , Huaiyu Dai