The aim of this study was to reduce the influence of highly dynamic substrate network
topology and large transmission delay caused by long communication distance between …

Software-defined satellite-terrestrial integrated networks (SDSTNs) are seen as a promising
paradigm for achieving high resource flexibility and global communication coverage …

Traditional networks can no longer provide better communication services. Unlike most
existing work that only focuses on single-layer satellite networks and unmanned aerial …

By decoupling control plane and data plane, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) approach
simplifies network management and speeds up network innovations. These benefits have …

Controller placement is a key problem in software defined networks (SDNs). Previously, the
solution to this problem only focused on propagation latency but ignored the load of …

An inherent problem in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is the Controller Placement
Problem, which addresses how many controllers to deploy in the network, and where to …

It's promising to use Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV) to integrate satellite and terrestrial networks. To construct network …

SDN paradigm has successfully manage to pave the way toward next-generation
networking, but the research on SDN-based integrated satellite and terrestrial network has …

Abstract Satellite-Terrestrial integrated Networks (STNs) have been advocated by both
academia and industry as a promising network paradigm to achieve service continuity and …

Integrating terrestrial cellular network with Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation has
been a popular trend in beyond 5G and 6G eras, called Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Core …