Routers in space: Kepler communications' CubeSats will create an Internet for other satellites

M Mitry - IEEE Spectrum, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… an Internet service provider high above Earth’s surface, to … Imagine the pipe as two straight
lengths of pipe joined … by taking up data from one ground station and delivering it to another, …

HAPS selection for hybrid RF/FSO satellite networks

OB Yahia, E Erdogan, GK Kurt… - … on Aerospace and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… between the HAPS node and the ground station (GS). In the … In optical communication, Mie
scattering is considered to be … The Earth’s atmosphere extends up to 700 km above ground

5G and Beyond 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks: trends and research challenges

A Vanelli-Coralli, A Guidotti, T Foggi… - … IEEE 3rd 5G World …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… to the direct access scenarios due to the introduction of a potentially large number of on-ground
New spectrum, up to optical communications, shall be investigated, in particular, for the …

A survey of free space optics (FSO) communication systems, links, and networks

SA Al-Gailani, MFM Salleh, AA Salem… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… at the optical layer are the intensity modulation with direct … space optical communication to
improve the performance level of … the aircraft or a ground station on the surface of the earth. …

Space-terrestrial integrated Internet of Things: Challenges and opportunities

JA Fraire, O Iova, F Valois - IEEE Communications Magazine, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Earth (appearing motionless to an observer on the ground), … deployment scenarios: indirect
and direct satellite IoT. It is … application data with the ground station connected to the core …

Current and future communication solutions for smart grids: A review

N Suhaimy, NAM Radzi, WSHMW Ahmad… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… , design, security, management, reliability, efficiency, distance, … and high-voltage direct
current over long distances high-… technology is a protection ground wire for optical cable s in …

The open challenge of integrating satellites into (beyond-) 5G cellular networks

R De Gaudenzi, M Luise, L Sanguinetti - IEEE Network, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… directive ground terminal antennas to … communication (MTC) traffic [2]. On the contrary,
some major technological gaps still need to be filled to ensure efficient direct mobile user terminal

Quantum-limited optical time transfer for future geosynchronous links

ED Caldwell, JD Deschenes, J Ellis, WC Swann… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
… The underlying map in a is from Google Earth with image … (Direct detection of the incoming
power at the 100 fW level would … -to-ground optical communications link using adaptive optics

A key 6G challenge and opportunity—Connecting the base of the pyramid: A survey on rural connectivity

E Yaacoub, MS Alouini - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… in percent (%) of the population of each continent or world … with the WiFi network used for
direct access. Thus, we follow … In fact, their satellite to ground communications require high-…

UAV-aided wireless communication design with energy constraint in space-air-ground integrated green IoT networks

H Dai, H Bian, C Li, B Wang - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In the UAV-to-ground communication model, we suppose that the UAV/vehicle-mounted
base station is equipped with a single antenna with omnidirectional unit gain. The UAV-to…