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The amount of data generated by Earth observation satellites can be enormous, which poses a great challenge to the satellite-to-ground connections with limited rate. This paper considers problem of efficient downlink communication of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Van-Phuc Bui , Thinh Q. Dinh , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Shashi Raj Pandey , Eva Lagunas , Petar Popovski

The broadcast characteristics of sixth-generation (6G) low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications raise serious security issues. Movable antenna (MA) technology offers a promising physical layer security (PLS) solution by flexibly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Suhong Luo , Pan Tang , Jianhua Zhang , Ji Wang , Yixuan Li , Zihang Ding , Xingwang Li

Mega-constellations in Low Earth Orbit have the potential to revolutionise worldwide internet access. The concomitant potential of these mega-constellations to impact space sustainability, however, has prompted concern from space actors as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Calum Spring-Turner , Raj Thilak Rajan

We consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relaying boardcast channel in downlink cellular networks, where the base station and the relay stations are both equipped with multiple antennas, and each user terminal has only a single…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Zijian Wang , Wen Chen , Jun Li

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks have shown strategic superiority in maritime communications, assisting in establishing signal transmissions from shore to ship through space-based links. Traditional performance modeling based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Xu Hu , Bin Lin , Xiao Lu , Ping Wang , Nan Cheng , Zhisheng Yin , Weihua Zhuang

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

To enhance the positioning and tracking performance of dynamic user equipment (UE) in wideband millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems, we propose a novel positioning error lower bound (PELB)-driven ping-pong positioning framework, where the base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Lin Guo , Tiejun Lv , Yashuai Cao , Mugen Peng

The integration of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations into 5G and Beyond is essential to achieve efficient global connectivity. As LEO satellites are a global infrastructure with predictable dynamics, a pre-planned fair and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Vineet Gala , Federico Chiariotti , Petar Popovski

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks connect millions of devices on Earth and offer various services, such as data communications, remote sensing, and data harvesting. As the number of services increases, LEO satellite networks will…

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

The use of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites in the next generation (Next-G) communication systems has been gaining traction over the last few years due to their potential for providing global connectivity with low latency. Since they are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Sambrama , Venkata Srirama Rohit Kantheti , Liang C Chu , Erik Blasch , Shih-Chun Lin

This paper proposes a relay satellite assisted low earth orbit (LEO) constellation non-orthogonal multiple access combined beamforming (R-NOMA-BF) communication system, where multiple antenna LEO satellites deliver information to ground…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Xuyang Zhang , Xinwei Yue , Zhihao Han , Tian Li , Xia Shen , Yafei Wang , Rongke Liu

This correspondence studies the downlink transmission in a multi-cell system, where multiple base stations (BSs) each with multiple antennas cooperatively design their respective transmit beamforming vectors to optimize the overall system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Rui Zhang , Shuguang Cui

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the link budget for free-space optical systems involving Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites. We develop a detailed model of the satellite-to-ground channel that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Artur Czerwinski , Jakub J. Borkowski , Saeed Haddadi

We propose a low-power mobile low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication architecture, employing double reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to enhance energy efficiency and signal performance. With a distance between RISs that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Kunnathully Sadanandan Sanila , Rickard Nilsson , Emad Ibrahim , Neelakandan Rajamohan

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

We study downlink (DL) channel estimation in a multi-cell Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system operating in a time-division duplex. The users must know their effective channel gains to decode their received DL data signals.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Amin Ghazanfari , Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

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

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

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, as a prominent technology in the 6G non-terrestrial network, offer both positioning and communication capabilities. While these two applications have each been extensively studied and have achieved…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Jie Ma , Pinjun Zheng , Xing Liu , Yuchen Zhang , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

This paper proposes a new architecture for the low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite ground station aided by movable antenna (MA) array. Unlike conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA), the MA array can flexibly adjust antenna positions to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Jinming Wang , Lipeng Zhu , Shuai Han , He Sun , Rui Zhang