Satellite communications (SatCom) plays a vital role in ensuring seamless access to telecommunications services anytime, and is a viable option for delivering telecommunication services in a wide range of sectors such as aeronautical, military, maritime, rescue and disaster relief. It should be an important component of 5G-and-beyond wireless architectures as it can complement terrestrial telecommunication solutions in various scenarios to provide highly reliable and secure connectivity over a wide geographical area. This book explores promising scenarios for 5G SatCom, novel paradigms for hybrid/integrated satellite-terrestrial integration, and emerging technologies for the next generation of SatCom systems. Topics covered include: Role of SatCom in the 5G Era; 5G satellite use cases and scenarios; SDN-enabled networks, NFV-based scenarios and on-board processing for satellite-terrestrial integration; EHF broadband aeronautical SatCom systems; Next-generation NGSO SatCom systems; Diversity combining and handover techniques for MEO satellites; Non-linear countermeasures for multicarrier satellites; SDN demonstrator for multi-beam satellite precoding; Beam-hopping SatCom systems; Optical on-off keying data links for LEO downlink applications; Ultra-high speed data relay systems; On-board interference detection and localization; Advanced random access schemes for SatCom systems; Interference avoidance, mitigation and dynamic spectrum sharing for hybrid satellite-terrestrial systems; and Two-way satellite relaying.
This book explores promising scenarios for 5G Satellite Communications (SatCom), novel paradigms for satellite-terrestrial integration and emerging technologies for the next generation of satellite systems and hybrid/integrated satellite-terrestrial systems, and focuses on recent research efforts towards 5G and beyond.
- Chapter 1: Role of satellite communications in 5G ecosystem: perspectives and challenges
- Chapter 2: Satellite use cases and scenarios for 5G eMBB
- Chapter 3: SDN-enabled SatCom networks for satellite-terrestrial integration
- Chapter 4: NFV-based scenarios for satellite-terrestrial integration
- Chapter 5: Propagation and system dimensions in extremely high frequency broadband aeronautical SatCom systems
- Chapter 6: Next-generation non-geostationary satellite communication systems: link characterization and system perspective
- Chapter 7: Diversity combining and handover techniques: enabling 5G using MEO satellites
- Chapter 8: Powerful nonlinear countermeasures for multicarrier satellites: progression to 5G
- Chapter 9: Satellite multi-beam precoding software-defined radio demonstrator
- Chapter 10: Beam-hopping systems for next-generation satellite communication systems
- Chapter 11: Optical on-off keying data links for low Earth orbit downlink applications
- Chapter 12: Ultra-high-speed data relay systems
- Chapter 13: On-board processing for satellite-terrestrial integration
- Chapter 14: On-board interference detection and localization for satellite communication
- Chapter 15: Random access in satellite communications: a background on legacy and advanced schemes
- Chapter 16: Interference avoidance and mitigation techniques for hybrid satellite-terrestrial networks
- Chapter 17: Dynamic spectrum sharing in hybrid satellite-terrestrial systems
- Chapter 18: Two-way satellite relaying