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In this paper, we consider a cooperative communication network where multiple low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites provide services to multiple ground users (GUs) cooperatively at the same time and on the same frequency. The multi-satellite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xuan Zhang , Shu Sun , Meixia Tao , Qin Huang , Xiaohu Tang

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks are capable of improving the global Internet service coverage. In this context, we propose a hybrid beamforming design for holographic metasurface based terrestrial users in multi-altitude LEO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Qingchao Li , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Kaijun Cao , Chao Xu , Harald Haas , Lajos Hanzo

This work addresses the challenge of training supervised machine or deep learning models on orbiting platforms where we are generally constrained by limited on-board hardware capabilities and restricted uplink bandwidths to upload. We aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Raúl Ramos-Pollán , Fabio A. González

The rapid development of communication technologies in the past decades has provided immense vertical opportunities for individuals and enterprises. However, conventional terrestrial cellular networks have unfortunately neglected the huge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Shicong Liu , Zhen Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Xiqi Gao , Kai-Kit Wong , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

Pose estimation of an uncooperative space resident object is a key asset towards autonomy in close proximity operations. In this context monocular cameras are a valuable solution because of their low system requirements. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Alessandro Lotti , Dario Modenini , Paolo Tortora , Massimiliano Saponara , Maria A. Perino

In the era of mega-constellations, the need for accurate and publicly available information has become fundamental for satellite operators to guarantee the safety of spacecrafts and the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) space environment. This study…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Katarina Dyreby , Francisco Caldas , Cláudia Soares

Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are becoming a cornerstone of next-generation satellite networks, enabling worldwide high-precision navigation and high-quality remote sensing. This paper proposes a novel dual-function LEO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qi Wang , Xiaoming Chen , Qiao Qi , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

Providing connectivity to aerial users, such as cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or flying taxis, is a key challenge for tomorrow's cellular systems. In this paper, the use of coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-28 Ramy Amer , Walid Saad , Hesham ElSawy , Majid Butt , Nicola Marchetti

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite downlinks are fundamentally limited by severe channel correlation: the line-of-sight (LoS)-dominant propagation and high orbital altitude confine users to a narrow angular region, rendering the multiuser…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Hyeongtak Yun , Seyong Kim , Jeonghun Park

5G and future cellular networks intend to incorporate low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems (SatCom) to solve the coverage and availability problems that cannot be addressed by satellite-based or ground-based infrastructure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-08 Joan Palacios , Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic , Carlos Mosquera , Takayuki Shimizu , Chang-Heng Wang

With numerous ongoing deployments owned by private companies and startups, dense satellite constellations deployed in low Earth orbit (LEO) will play a major role in the near future of wireless communications. In addition, the 3rd…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Beatriz Soret , Petar Popovski

With low-altitude economies emerging as a pivotal sector, this study explores an integrated sensing, communication, and computation system over low-altitude wireless networks. A full-duplex autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) operates as an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Yiyang Chen , Wenchao Liu , Xuhui Zhang , Jinke Ren , Huijun Xing , Shuqiang Wang , Yanyan Shen , Kim-Fung Tsang

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite mega-constellations with hundreds or thousands of satellites and inter-satellite links (ISLs) have the potential to provide global end-to-end connectivity. Furthermore, if the physical distance between source…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Rasmus Sibbern Frederiksen , Thomas Gundgaard Mulvad , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Tatiana Kozlova Madsen , Federico Chiariotti

Earth observation (EO) satellites produce massive streams of multispectral image time series, posing pressing challenges for storage and transmission. Yet, learned EO compression remains fragmented and lacks publicly available, large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Julen Costa-Watanabe , Isabelle Wittmann , Benedikt Blumenstiel , Konrad Schindler

Ground-based, high-resolution bolometric (sub)millimeter continuum mapping observations on spatially extended target sources are often subject to significant missing fluxes. This hampers accurate quantitative analyses. Missing flux can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-02 Sihan Jiao , Yuxin Lin , Xiangyu Shui , Jingwen Wu , Zhiyuan Ren , Di Li

In this paper, we introduce a delay-aware largesmall model collaboration scheme for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks, which can balance the computational load among satellites and the communication load across inter-satellite links.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Mingyu Guo , Wen Wu , Ying Wang , Songge Zhang , Liang Li

In this paper, we consider downlink low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems where multiple LEO satellites are uniformly distributed over a sphere at a certain altitude according to a homogeneous binomial point process (BPP).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Dong-Hyun Jung , Joon-Gyu Ryu , Woo-Jin Byun , Junil Choi

Satellite constellations in low-Earth orbit are now widespread, enabling positioning, Earth imaging, and communications. In this paper we address the solution of learning problems using these satellite constellations. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ruxandra-Stefania Tudose , Moritz H. W. Grüss , Grace Ra Kim , Karl H. Johansson , Nicola Bastianello

One basic operation of Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks is aggregating distributed sensing-data over wireless-channels for function-computation, called wireless-data-aggregation (WDA). Targeting dense sensors, a recently developed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Dingzhu Wen , Guangxu Zhu , Kaibin Huang

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks introduce unique congestion control (CC) challenges due to frequent handovers, rapidly changing round-trip times (RTTs), and non-congestive loss. This paper presents the first comprehensive,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Mihai Mazilu , Aiden Valentine , George Parisis