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Space-air-ground uniformly integrated network (SAGUIN), which integrates the satellite, aerial, and terrestrial networks into a unified communication architecture, is a promising candidate technology for the next-generation wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Chuan Huang , Ran Li , Jiachen Wang

In this paper, we propose and investigate an aerial reconfigurable intelligent surface (aerial-RIS)-aided wireless communication system. Specifically, considering practical composite fading channels, we characterize the air-to-ground (A2G)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Tri Nhu Do , Georges Kaddoum , Thanh Luan Nguyen , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Zygmunt J. Haas

6G networks aim to enable applications like autonomous driving by providing complementary localization services through key technologies such as non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) with low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites and reconfigurable…

Although a significant number satellites are deemed essential for facilitating diverse applications of satellite networks, aerial platforms are emerging as excellent alternatives for enabling reliable communications with fewer satellites.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Chang-Sik Choi

Terahertz inter-satellite links enable unprecedented sensing precision for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations, yet face fundamental bounds from hardware impairments, pointing errors, and network interference. We develop a Network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Haofan Dong , Houtianfu Wang , Hanlin Cai , Ozgur B. Akan

Edge artificial intelligence (AI) and space-ground integrated networks (SGINs) are two main usage scenarios of the sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks. Edge AI supports pervasive low-latency AI services to users, whereas SGINs provide…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Qian Chen , Zhanwei Wang , Xianhao Chen , Juan Wen , Di Zhou , Sijing Ji , Min Sheng , Kaibin Huang

Tightly integrated low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications and terrestrial integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) are expected to be key novel aspects of the 6G era. Spectrum sharing between satellite and terrestrial cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Jeongju Jee , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication (SatCom) has emerged as a promising technology to improve wireless connectivity in global areas. Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO), an architecture proposed for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Xiangyu Li , Bodong Shang

Maritime channel modeling is crucial for designing robust nearshore communication systems, yet reliable models that account for the dynamic marine environment with varying sea waves, wind conditions, and vessel motions remain scarce. This…

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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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Chang-Sik Choi

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites are leveraged to support new position, navigation, and timing (PNT) service alternatives to GNSS. These alternatives require accurate propagation of satellite position and velocity with a realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alex Moody , Penina Axelrad , Rebecca Russell

With a motive of ubiquitous connectivity over the globe with enhanced spectral efficiency, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) integrated satellite-terrestrial communications is a topic of research interest in an infrastructure-deficient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Parvez Shaik , Kamal Kishore Garg , Praveen Kumar Singya , Vimal Bhatia , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This letter proposes decision-directed semi-blind channel estimation for massive multiple-input multiple-output low-Earth-orbit satellite communications. Two semi-blind estimators are proposed. The first utilizes detected data symbols in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Abdollah Masoud Darya , Saeed Abdallah

We consider in this paper a new intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided LEO satellite communication system, by utilizing the controllable phase shifts of massive passive reflecting elements to achieve flexible beamforming, which copes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Beixiong Zheng , Shaoe Lin , Rui Zhang

Recently, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites experience rapid development and satellite edge computing emerges to address the limitation of bent-pipe architecture in existing satellite systems. Introducing energy-consuming computing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Qing Li , Shangguang Wang , Xiao Ma , Ao Zhou , Fangchun Yang

The space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) is a pivotal architecture to support ubiquitous connectivity in the upcoming 6G era. Inter-operator resource and service sharing is a promising way to realize such a huge network, utilizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Shizhao He , Jungang Ge , Ying-Chang Liang , Dusit Niyato

In this paper, we consider traffic offloading of integrated low earth orbit (LEO) satellite-terrestrial network. We first derive traffic offloading probability from the terrestrial network to the LEO satellite network based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Hossein Akhlaghpasand , Vahid Shah-Mansouri

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

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites have promoted the application of large remote sensing foundation models for various downstream tasks. However, direct downloading of these models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yan Zhu , Jingyang Zhu , Ting Wang , Yuanming Shi , Chunxiao Jiang , Khaled Ben Letaief

Relying on the powerful communication capabilities and rapidly changing geometric configuration, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites have the potential to offer integrated communication and navigation (ICAN) services. However, the isolated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Jiajing Li , Binghong Liu , Mugen Peng