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Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communication is a promising approach to providing Internet connectivity to users in many remote areas. As videos are likely to account for most traffic in the LEO satellite network, as in the rest of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Kyoungjun Park , Zhiyuan He , Cheng Luo , Yi Xu , Lili Qiu , Changhan Ge , Muhammad Muaz

Recent breakthroughs in technology have led to a thriving "new space" culture in low-Earth orbit (LEO) in which performance and cost considerations dominate over resilience and reliability as mission goals. These advances create a manifold…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Gregory Stock , Juan A. Fraire , Holger Hermanns , Eduardo Cruz , Alastair Isaacs , Zhana Imbrosh

The ever-increasing demand for ubiquitous, continuous, and high-quality services poses a great challenge to the traditional terrestrial network. To mitigate this problem, the mobile-edge-computing-enhanced low earth orbit (LEO) satellite…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yantong Wang , Chuanfen Feng , Jiande Sun

Satellite constellations equipped with Inter-Satellite Links and onboard packet switching enable real-time Operation and Management across globally distributed satellites, but also broaden the attack surface and introduce unprecedented…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Linan Huang , Peilong Liu , Xi Chen , Zhiyuan Lin , Jian Yan , Linling Kuang

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations play a pivotal role in sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks by providing global coverage, massive connections, and huge capacity. In this paper, we present a novel LEO satellite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Wenfei Yao , Xiaoming Chen , Qi Wang , Xingyu Peng

With the proliferated low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites in mega-constellations, the future Internet will be able to reach any place on Earth, providing high-quality services to everyone. However, high-quality operations in terms of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Peng Hu

With the development of low earth orbit (LEO) satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) becomes a major trend in the next-generation networks. However, due to the instability of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Boran Wang , Ziye Jia , Can Cui , Qihui Wu

We consider a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network with each satellite capable of establishing inter-satellite link (ISL) connections for satellite-to-satellite communication. Since ISLs can be reoriented to change the topology, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Chirag Rao , Eytan Modiano

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

Aiming to achieve ubiquitous global connectivity and target detection on the same platform with improved spectral/energy efficiency and reduced onboard hardware cost, low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems capable of simultaneously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Juha Park , Jaehyup Seong , Jaehak Ryu , Yijie Mao , Wonjae Shin

Recent proposals for datacenters in sun-synchronous Low Earth Orbit rely on a large number of compute satellites formation-flying in dense clusters. Designing such satellite clusters requires optimizing the satellites' orbital geometry…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jules Pénot , Hamsa Balakrishnan

In this work, we introduce Fed-Span: \textit{\underline{fed}erated learning with \underline{span}ning aggregation over low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations}. Fed-Span aims to address critical challenges inherent to distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Fardis Nadimi , Payam Abdisarabshali , Jacob Chakareski , Nicholas Mastronarde , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour

The rise in low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite Internet services has led to increasing demand, often exceeding available data rates and compromising the quality of service. While deploying more satellites offers a short-term fix, designing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Olivier Bélanger , Jean-Luc Lupien , Olfa Ben Yahia , Stéphane Martel , Antoine Lesage-Landry , Gunes Karabulut Kurt

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and ubiquitous connectivity are two usage scenarios of sixth generation (6G) networks. In this context, low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations, as an important component of 6G networks, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Qi Wang , Xiaoming Chen , Qiao Qi , Mili Li , Wolfgang Gerstacker

A general satellite channel model is proposed for communications between a rapidly moving low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite in a mega-constellation and a stationary user on Earth. The channel uses a non-homogeneous binomial point process…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Brendon McBain , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

Dense constellations of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) small satellites are envisioned to make extensive use of the inter-satellite link (ISL). Within the same orbital plane, the inter-satellite distances are preserved and the links are rather…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Beatriz Soret , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Petar Popovski

With the rapid growth in data demand and stringent latency requirements of modern applications has driven significant interest in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations as an emerging solution for global Internet coverage. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Mudassar Liaq , Mahyar Tajeri , Peng Hu

The advances in satellite technology developments have recently seen a large number of small satellites being launched into space on Low Earth orbit (LEO) to collect massive data such as Earth observational imagery. The traditional way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mohamed Elmahallawy , Tie Luo

Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as a distributed machine learning paradigm for systems with limited and intermittent connectivity. This paper presents the new context brought to FL by satellite constellations, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Bho Matthiesen , Nasrin Razmi , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Armin Dekorsy , Petar Popovski

The end-to-end connectivity patterns between two points on Earth are highly volatile if mediated via a Low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. This is rooted in the enormous speeds at which satellites in LEO must travel relative to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Gregory Stock , Juan A. Fraire , Santiago Henn , Holger Hermanns , Andreas Schmidt