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Architectures and Key Technical Challenges for Space-Terrestrial Heterogeneous Networks

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Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems (CSPS 2019)

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Possessing the capability of breaking through the limitation of geographic conditions, Space-Terrestrial Heterogeneous networks play a significant role for global coverage capacity, which however pose new challenges to the network architecture design. In this paper, we first propose novel architectures for the considered space-terrestrial heterogeneous networks. On this basis, some key technical issues in the developed architectures are comprehensively discussed, including protocol design, Integrated Routing and so on, which pave the way for extensive applications of the Space-Terrestrial Heterogeneous networks.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported in part by Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission Research under Project Z17110005217001, and National Key Research and Development Project under grants 2016YFB0800305.

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  1. China Academic Electronic and Information Technology, Beijing, 100041, People’s Republic of China

    Yang Zhang, Chao Mu & Zhou Lu

  2. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, People’s Republic of China

    Fangmin Xu & Ye Xiao

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA

    Qilian Liang

  2. College of Electronic and Communication Engineering, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China

    Wei Wang

  3. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China

    Xin Liu

  4. School of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning, China

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  5. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

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  6. College of Physical and Electronic Information, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China

    Baoju Zhang

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Zhang, Y., Mu, C., Lu, Z., Xu, F., Xiao, Y. (2020). Architectures and Key Technical Challenges for Space-Terrestrial Heterogeneous Networks. In: Liang, Q., Wang, W., Liu, X., Na, Z., Jia, M., Zhang, B. (eds) Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems. CSPS 2019. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 571. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9409-6_240

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