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Handover management in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks

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Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks will play an important role in the evolving information infrastructure. Satellites in the low earth orbits provide communication with shorter end-to-end delays and efficient frequency usage. However, some problems need to be solved before LEO satellite systems can be successfully deployed. One of these problems is the handover management. The objective of this paper is to survey the basic concepts of LEO satellite networks and the handover research.

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  1. Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Ian F. Akyildiz

  2. Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ, 07733, USA

    Hüseyin Uzunalioğlu

  3. Department of Defense, 9800 Savage Road, Fort Meade, MD, 20755, USA

    Michael D. Bender

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Akyildiz, I.F., Uzunalioğlu, H. & Bender, M.D. Handover management in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks. Mobile Networks and Applications 4, 301–310 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019167303222

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