Paul Grislain, Alexia Auddino, Anna Barraqué, François Lamothe, Oana Hotescu, Jérôme Lacan, José Radzik, Emmanuel Lochin
{"title":"Rethinking LEO constellations routing","authors":"Paul Grislain, Alexia Auddino, Anna Barraqué, François Lamothe, Oana Hotescu, Jérôme Lacan, José Radzik, Emmanuel Lochin","doi":"10.1002/sat.1514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sat.1514","url":null,"abstract":"SummaryThis study investigates the unsplittable multicommodity flow (UMCF) as a routing algorithm for LEO constellations. Usually, LEO routing schemes enable the Floyd–Warshall algorithm (shortest path) to minimize the end‐to‐end latency of the flows crossing the constellation. We propose to solve the UMCF problem associated with the system as a solution for routing over LEO. We use a heuristic algorithm based on randomized rounding known in the optimization literature to efficiently solve the UMCF problem. Furthermore, we explore the impact of choosing the first/last hop before entering/exiting the constellation. Using network simulation over Telesat constellation, we show that UMCF maximizes the end‐to‐end links usage, providing better routing while minimizing the delay and the congestion level, which is an issue today over new megaconstellations.","PeriodicalId":50289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient and quantum-secure authenticated key exchange scheme for mobile satellite communication networks","authors":"Dheerendra Mishra, Purva Rewal, Komal Pursharthi","doi":"10.1002/sat.1516","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sat.1516","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The mobile satellite communication (MSC) system is a vital communication method in which mobile users and network control centers connect via satellites. Since the satellite's communication is wireless, communication security is a critical factor to ensure accountable communication. Key exchange and authentication (KEA) mechanism is widely used to achieve data security for data transmitted in an insecure or open channel. Different authentication systems are suggested in the last many years to establish safe communication, whereas most existing security protocols are based on factorization or discrete logarithm. However, these systems are no longer reliable by Shor's algorithm as any discrete logarithm and factorization can be resolved in polynomial time on quantum computers. Thus, developing a quantum secure KEA protocol for MSC systems is necessary. In this direction, recently a ring learning with an error-based KEA technique is proposed to ensure a quantum-safe environment. This scheme is quantum-safe and satisfies desirable security attributes but has low efficiency in computation and communication. Moreover, establishing a secure session requires six communications among involved entities. As a result, replay attack detection at an early stage is not possible for the central authority (server), which could delay the server response, and the adversary gets the advantage of drawing a denial of service scenario for authorized entities. We propose a lattice-based KEA protocol for the MSC system to improve computation, communication efficiency, and early-stage replay attack detection. The security analysis of the proposed scheme is presented in the random oracle model. Calculation of performance is also presented to observe advantages in computation and communication overhead.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking","volume":"42 4","pages":"313-328"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140800082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mengmin He, Gaofeng Cui, Mengjing Wu, Weidong Wang
{"title":"Collaborative interference avoidance technology in GEO-LEO co-existing satellite system","authors":"Mengmin He, Gaofeng Cui, Mengjing Wu, Weidong Wang","doi":"10.1002/sat.1511","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sat.1511","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Recently, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite and Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellites share the same frequency to enhance spectrum efficiency in response to the scarcity of spectral resources. However, overlapping coverage areas emerge when LEO-GEO and LEO-LEO beams cover the same ground area in the GEO-LEO co-existing satellite system. Thus, the GEO-LEO inter-system interference and the LEO intra-system interference are generated, which leads to more severe and complex interference. To solve the co-channel interference problem without sacrificing the performance of the LEO system, a collaborative interference avoidance technology is proposed for the GEO-LEO co-existing satellite system. Firstly, the LEO satellite and user regrouping strategy (SURS) is employed to effectively avoid severe co-channel interference by changing service satellites. Then, based on regrouping satellite and user pairs, a proximal policy optimization (PPO)-based deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method is adopted to realize further continuous beam pointing optimization (BPO) of the LEO user antenna and reduce the co-channel interference. Finally, simulation results verify that the proposed scheme can achieve the goal of interference mitigation and continuous service.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking","volume":"42 4","pages":"257-272"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140630695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mengmin He, Gaofeng Cui, Mengjing Wu, Weidong Wang
{"title":"Joint beam power and pointing management in multi-beam low earth orbit and low earth orbit co-existing satellite system","authors":"Mengmin He, Gaofeng Cui, Mengjing Wu, Weidong Wang","doi":"10.1002/sat.1509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sat.1509","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Recently, the low earth orbit (LEO) satellite has attracted much attention due to its advantages of low latency and construction costs. However, the scarcity of frequency spectrum resources has resulted in these satellites sharing the same spectrum to provide services for ground users. So, challenges such as overlapping beam coverage and inter-beam interference occur in the multi-beam LEO satellite coexistence scenario. Therefore, this paper focuses on the issue of interference coexistence in LEO and LEO (LEO–LEO) co-existing scenario, where the initially established system is the primary system, and the later established system is the secondary system. The interference coexistence problem is modeled as a multi-objective optimization problem. The joint beam power and pointing management (JBPPM) based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed. The power control is applied to the LEO satellites in the secondary system to reduce the interference to the primary system user. Meanwhile, beam pointing optimization is adopted by the LEO users in the secondary system to avoid interference from the primary system and ensure the minimum communication ability. The simulation results verify that the proposed technique can adapt to various coexistence conditions and outperform the existing method.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking","volume":"42 3","pages":"217-231"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140546814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An intelligent load balancing algorithm for 5G-satellite networks","authors":"Mobolanle Bello, Prashant Pillai, Ali Safaa Sadiq","doi":"10.1002/sat.1517","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sat.1517","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cellular networks are projected to deal with an immense rise in data traffic, as well as an enormous and diverse device, plus advanced use cases, in the nearest future; hence, future 5G networks are being developed to consist of not only 5G but also different radio access technologies (RATs) integrated. In addition to 5G, the user's device (UD) will be able to connect to the network via LTE, WiMAX, WiFi, Satellite and other technologies. On the other hand, Satellite has been suggested as a preferred network to support 5G use cases. However, achieving load balancing is essential to guarantee an equal amount of traffic distributed between different RATs in a heterogeneous wireless network; this would enable optimal utilisation of the radio resources and lower the likelihood of call blocking/dropping. This study presented an artificial intelligent-based application in heterogeneous wireless networks and proposed an enhanced particle optimisation (EPSO) algorithm to solve the load balancing problem in 5G-Satellite networks. The algorithm uses a call admission control strategy to admit users into the network to ensure that users are evenly distributed on the network. The proposed algorithm was compared with the Artificial Bee Colony and Simulated Annealing algorithm using three performance metrics: throughput, call blocking and fairness. Finally, based on the experimental findings, results outcomes were analysed and discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":50289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking","volume":"42 5","pages":"329-353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sat.1517","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140568913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CG-FlexBeamOpt: Advanced solution methodology for high throughput GEO satellite beam laydown and resource allocation","authors":"Ryan Li, Angus Gaudry, Vicky Mak-Hau","doi":"10.1002/sat.1513","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sat.1513","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Modern satellite communication systems are designed to serve dispersed users with changing operational requirements. Allocating resources to meet these requirements becomes highly complex when the size, location, and allocated frequency of satellite beams are flexible. We developed solution techniques that generate feasible beam patterns and frequency allocations to maximize the total demand met across all users. In our approach, an integer program selects an optimal set of beams from a heuristically generated pool of feasible candidate beams. The challenge is in how to efficiently build a pool of good quality candidate beams from exponentially many possible solutions. An innovative column generation-style heuristic to generate mathematically justifiable beams is presented to address this challenge. We also derived two other heuristic candidate beam generation algorithms to compare and contrast performance and robustness characteristics of different algorithmic choices. We tested the performance of our three new approaches on 12 operational instances that vary in user distribution, user numbers, and demand distribution. While the methods performed differently under varying operational scenarios, the column generation-based methods provided the best trade-off between computation time and solution quality in most cases. We further tested our two best performing algorithms for scalability. Our column generation-based methods were able to provide good quality solutions with up to 400 beams and 5,000 users. Our work provides valuable insights for real-life implementation: an end-user of our system can select the solution approach based on their business need, computational (time) budget, and the desired solution quality.</p>","PeriodicalId":50289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking","volume":"42 4","pages":"286-312"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sat.1513","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140568882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel optimization method for attenuating multi-interferences in satellite communication earth station","authors":"Kang Luo, Qing Wang, Kai Yang, Bin Li","doi":"10.1002/sat.1512","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sat.1512","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The study of multi-interferences plays a pivotal role in advancing the development of next-generation, high-performance communication devices. In this paper, we propose a design approach for auxiliary antennas aimed at mitigating multi-interference challenges within satellite communication earth stations. We introduce an eight-element auxiliary antenna with an elliptical beam comprising dual radiation patches and a T-shaped power divider, to attenuate interferences originating from three distinct directions. To enhance the azimuthal beamwidth, we adjust the dimensions of the ground plane and extend the substrate. At a frequency of 12.5 GHz, the antenna exhibits a 3-dB beam spacing of 38° and an azimuthal width of 162°, with a maximum gain of 7.9 dBi. We employ a sidelobe canceller to optimize the antenna's performance, and both simulations and measurements affirm that the auxiliary antenna achieves an extinction interference cancelation ratio exceeding 27 dB under all circumstances.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking","volume":"42 4","pages":"273-285"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140568911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuan Qin, Hang Zhang, Wen Li, Hongpeng Zhu, Jiong Li
{"title":"Co-channel interference cancellation based on BSS for multi-satellite MIMO communication systems with FFR","authors":"Yuan Qin, Hang Zhang, Wen Li, Hongpeng Zhu, Jiong Li","doi":"10.1002/sat.1510","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sat.1510","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology can boost the capacity of conventional satellite communications, and full frequency reuse (FFR) can further improve the capacity by making full use of frequency resources. However, FFR will cause severe co-channel interference and lead to a degradation of channel capacity. Blind source separation (BSS) algorithm can be used to eliminate co-channel interference and does not require prior information, which avoids the extra occupation of channel frequency resources. While the multi-satellite MIMO communication system have delay mixing characteristic, the separation performance will be degraded if the delay is ignored. In this paper, DMBSS algorithm for delay mixing is proposed. Firstly, the DMBSS algorithm utilizes Taylor expansion to achieve dimension expansion of observed signals and so as to transform the delay mixing into instantaneous mixing with extended dimension. Secondly, complex non-orthogonal joint diagonalization algorithm is used to solve the separation matrix equation of extended observation signals and extended source signals and thus to eliminate the co-channel interference. Simulation results show that for multi-satellite MIMO communication scenarios with FFR, the proposed algorithm can effectively improve the performance of co-channel interference cancellation and reduce the value of BER. Furthermore, the influence of order of Taylor expansion on the separation performance is also analyzed and simulated in this paper to show the cost performance of the proposed algorithm.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":50289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking","volume":"42 3","pages":"232-255"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140046574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel method for satellite prediction of VDE-TER service traffic information based on multilayers bidirectional LSTM","authors":"Ruiwen Wu, Zongwang Li, Zhuochen Xie, Xuwen Liang","doi":"10.1002/sat.1508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sat.1508","url":null,"abstract":"Satellite prediction of very high frequency (VHF) Data Exchange (VDE)-Terrestrial (VDE-TER) ship-to-ship Self-Organized Networks (SON) service traffic information is crucial for wireless resource allocation of VHF Data Exchange System (VDES). Due to the VDE-TER, channel load observed by the satellite changes rapidly and the historical information cached on the satellite is limited; the prediction of VDE-TER service traffic is difficult. This paper proposes a multilayer bidirectional long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network model (MLB-LSTM), which controls the amount of forgetting of historical information and the amount of memory of current information through the LSTM unit, so that the model can better learn the nonlinear changes of service traffic. The bidirectional LSTM module combines forward and backward time series data, reducing the amount of data required for prediction and enhancing the prediction accuracy of the model. Numerical results show that the proposed prediction model significantly outperforms traditional methods and is able to adapt to rapidly changing VDE-TER data.","PeriodicalId":50289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139588112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea Farkasvölgyi, László Csurgai-Horváth, Petr Boháček
{"title":"The evolution of lunar communication—From the beginning to the present","authors":"Andrea Farkasvölgyi, László Csurgai-Horváth, Petr Boháček","doi":"10.1002/sat.1507","DOIUrl":"10.1002/sat.1507","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Moon is the closest celestial body to the Earth. The examination and discovery of this planet have always played an important role in the history of humanity. Since the beginning of the space age, the Moon has been the target of many missions from the 1950s to the present day. Radio communication plays a fundamental role in space vehicle projects because this is the most obvious way to communicate with the ground station and transmit control commands and scientific data. From the early missions to the present day, Earth–Moon communication had many stages of development. In our article, we review this progress and then present the state-of-the-art ideas related to the present missions through the missions currently underway and those planned for the near future. Our primary objective is to describe the radio communication relay services planned for orbit around the Moon. Furthermore, we present the European Space Agency (ESA)-supported lunar missions, highlighting the Lunar Geology Orbiter (LUGO) mission. Finally, as a future perspective, we present the possibilities of optical communication in the Earth–Moon path, which can result a significant increase in capacity.</p>","PeriodicalId":50289,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking","volume":"42 3","pages":"200-216"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/sat.1507","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138525246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}