To extend the network coverage to rural and remote areas, there are different solutions with
their advantages and disadvantages. We propose to use a nanosatellite network and to …

The number of nanosatellites orbiting around the Earth is increasing year after year.
Nanosatellite constellations can be deployed to cover even larger areas. However, data …

Nowadays, to benefit from Internet access is so easy in some areas of the world as difficult in
others. There are some different projects whose purpose is to extend Internet access to …

Satellite communications are an interesting and promising application field for
Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN). Although primarily conceived for deep space …

This paper presents a novel network architecture for an integrated nanosatellite (nSAT)-5G
system operating in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) domain. The architecture is realized …

Drones are frequently used for the delivery of materials or other goods, and to facilitate the
capture and transmission of data. Moreover, drone networks have gained significant interest …

This paper presents and evaluates a new communications architecture to provide services
to terrestrial sensor networks using a space delay-tolerant networking (DTN)–based …

Sensors in future smart cities will continuously monitor the environment in order to prevent
critical situations and waste of resources or to offer new services to end users. Likely, the …

DTN is a relatively new research field and many applications have been identified for it. It is
an overlay network working over heterogeneous networks in challenged environments …

A large-scale low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network has the characteristics of a complex link
environment, a large number of satellites, and the limited resources of a single satellite …