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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…

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High-rate satellite communications among hundreds and even thousands of satellites deployed at low-Earth orbits (LEO) will be an important element of the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) of wireless systems beyond 2030. With millimeter…

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In this letter, we study an active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) assisted Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications under non-line-of-sight (NLoS) scenarios, where the active RIS is deployed to create visual line-of-sight…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Ziwei Liu , Junyan He , Shanshan Zhao , Meng Hua , Bin Lyu , Xinjie Zhao , Gengxin Zhang

This paper addresses the complexities of entanglement distribution in LEO satellite networks, particularly those arising from their dynamic topology. Traditional static and dynamic entanglement distribution methods often result in high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Seid Koudia , Junaid ur Rehman , Symeon Chatzinotas

Satellite communication systems are a fundamental component in support of Europe's ambition to deploy smart and sustainable networks and services for the success of its digital economy. To cope with the 5G and beyond ever increasing demand…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Alessandro Guidotti , Carla Amatetti , Fabrice Arnal , Baptiste Chamaillard , Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli

Modern Earth Observation (EO) missions generate massive volumes of imagery that challenge existing downlink and ground-processing capabilities, particularly for time-critical applications. This work investigates how a low Earth orbit (LEO)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Beatriz Soret , Antonio M. Mercado-Martínez , Antonio Jurado-Navas , Nicolai D. Lyholm , Marco Moretti , Petar Popovski , Israel Leyva-Mayorga

Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet of things (IoT) is a promising way achieving global Internet of Everything, and thus has been widely recognized as an important component of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. Yet, due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ming Ying , Xiaoming Chen , Qiao Qi , Wolfgang Gerstacker

Recently advanced low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite networks represented by large constellations and advanced payloads provide great promises for enabling high-quality Internet connectivity to any place on Earth. However, the traditional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-08 Peng Hu

High-throughput satellite communication systems are growing in strategic importance thanks to their role in delivering broadband services to mobile platforms and residences and/or businesses in rural and remote regions globally. Although…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Van-Phuc Bui , Trinh Van Chien , Eva Lagunas , Joël Grotz , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Caching is crucial in hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks to reduce latency, optimize throughput, and improve data availability by storing frequently accessed content closer to users, especially in bandwidth-limited satellite systems,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Zhou Zhang , Yizhu Wang , Saman Atapattu , Sumei Sun

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications (SATCOM) with ubiquitous global connectivity is deemed a pivotal catalyst in advancing wireless communication systems for 5G and beyond. LEO SATCOM excels in delivering versatile information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jaehyup Seong , Juha Park , Dong-Hyun Jung , Jeonghun Park , Wonjae Shin

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) satellite networks are emerging as a key infrastructure for global connectivity and space-based sensing. Many tasks in such systems can be formulated as measurement-set-to-spatial-inference problems, where spatial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Liping Tao , Xindi Tong , Chee Wei Tan

In this paper, we propose scalable distributed beamforming schemes over low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks that rely solely on statistical channel state information for downlink orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Yuchen Zhang , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

End-to-end latency in large low-Earth-orbit (LEO) constellations is dominated by propagation delay, making total delay roughly proportional to the network diameter, the longest shortest path in hops. Current inter-satellite link (ISL)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Arman Mollakhani , Jerayu Tiamraj , Shu-Jie Cao , Dongning Guo

Dealing with broadcast scenarios has become a relevant topic in the scientific community. Because of interference, resource management presents a challenge, specially when spatial diversity is introduced. Many researches presented…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Pol Henarejos

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

This paper proposes an energy-efficient RIS-assisted downlink NOMA communication for LEO satellite networks. The proposed framework simultaneously optimizes the transmit power of ground terminals of the LEO satellite and the passive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Wali Ullah Khan , Eva Lagunas , Asad Mahmood , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

This paper investigates joint device identification, channel estimation, and symbol detection for LEO satellite-enabled grant-free random access systems, specifically targeting scenarios where remote Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices operate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Boxiao Shen , Yongpeng Wu , Wenjun Zhang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

This paper introduces a novel beam tracking scheme for full-duplex ground user terminals aiming to transmit uplink and receive downlink from two low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites at the same time and same frequency. Our proposed technique…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Chaeyeon Kim , Joohyun Son , Daesik Hong , Ian P. Roberts