Software defined space-terrestrial integrated networks: Architecture, challenges, and solutions

Y Bi, G Han, S Xu, X Wang, C Lin, Z Yu, P Sun - IEEE Network, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A space and terrestrial integrated network (STIN) converges satellite communication
networks, mobile wireless networking, and the Internet, has greatly extended the scope of …

Space-air-ground integrated network: A survey

J Liu, Y Shi, ZM Fadlullah, N Kato - … Communications Surveys & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN), as an integration of satellite systems, aerial
networks, and terrestrial communications, has been becoming an emerging architecture and …

Integrated satellite-terrestrial networks toward 6G: Architectures, applications, and challenges

X Zhu, C Jiang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing global communication demands and the development of Internet of
Things (IoT), extending the connectivity to rural and remote areas has become imperative for …

Integrated satellite-terrestrial networks: Architectures, key techniques, and experimental progress

Y Sun, M Peng, S Zhang, G Lin, P Zhang - IEEE Network, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a promising paradigm toward the sixth generation mobile communication, integrated
satellite-terrestrial networks (ISTNs) can greatly extend network coverage and reduce the …

A cross-domain SDN architecture for multi-layered space-terrestrial integrated networks

Y Shi, Y Cao, J Liu, N Kato - IEEE Network, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The MLSTIN is considered as a powerful architecture to meet the heavy consumer demand
for wireless data access in the coming 5G ecosystem. However, due to the inherent …

An ICN/SDN-based network architecture and efficient content retrieval for future satellite-terrestrial integrated networks

J Li, K Xue, J Liu, Y Zhang, Y Fang - IEEE Network, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the tremendous increase in the amount of network contents and emerging applications,
traditional network architecture starts to exhibit management and efficiency problems. The …

Software-defined next-generation satellite networks: Architecture, challenges, and solutions

S Xu, XW Wang, M Huang - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional satellite networks depend on the closed and planned architecture. Thus, there
are many challenges such as configuration update, new communication and networking …

Heterogeneous space and terrestrial integrated networks for IoT: Architecture and challenges

WC Chien, CF Lai, MS Hossain, G Muhammad - IEEE network, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The number of IoT devices has been growing significantly, and mobile network traffic is also
increasing explosively. In order to meet the human desire to explore unknown areas …

The internet of space things/cubesats

IF Akyildiz, A Kak - IEEE Network, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things for terrestrial deployments is a major part of next-generation 5G
wireless systems. However, there are many use cases such as monitoring of remote areas …

A survey of next-generation computing technologies in space-air-ground integrated networks

Z Shen, J Jin, C Tan, A Tagami, S Wang, Q Li… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs) are key elements for facilitating high-speed
seamless connectivity to the devices/users in infrastructure-less environments, where the …