TY - JOUR
T1 - Hybrid Satellite–Terrestrial Networks toward 6G: Key Technologies and Open Issues
AU - Tirmizi, Syed Bilal Raza
AU - Chen, Yunfei
AU - Lakshminarayana, Subhash
AU - Feng, Wei
AU - Khuwaja, Aziz A.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-11-11
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): ORA-2021-CRG10-4696
Acknowledgements: This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61922049 and Grant 61941104; in part by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Research Funding (KRF) under Award No. ORA-2021-CRG10-4696 and by EC H2020 DAWN4IoE-Data Aware Wireless Network for Internet-of-Everything under Grant 778305.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
PY - 2022/11/6
Y1 - 2022/11/6
N2 - Future wireless networks will be required to provide more wireless services at higher data rates and with global coverage. However, existing homogeneous wireless networks, such as cellular and satellite networks, may not be able to meet such requirements individually, especially in remote terrain, including seas and mountains. One possible solution is to use diversified wireless networks that can exploit the inter-connectivity between satellites, aerial base stations (BSs), and terrestrial BSs over inter-connected space, ground, and aerial networks. Hence, enabling wireless communication in one integrated network has attracted both the industry and the research fraternities. In this work, we provide a comprehensive survey of the most recent work on hybrid satellite–terrestrial networks (HSTNs), focusing on system architecture, performance analysis, design optimization, and secure communication schemes for different cooperative and cognitive HSTN network architectures. Different key technologies are compared. Based on this comparison, several open issues for future research are discussed.
AB - Future wireless networks will be required to provide more wireless services at higher data rates and with global coverage. However, existing homogeneous wireless networks, such as cellular and satellite networks, may not be able to meet such requirements individually, especially in remote terrain, including seas and mountains. One possible solution is to use diversified wireless networks that can exploit the inter-connectivity between satellites, aerial base stations (BSs), and terrestrial BSs over inter-connected space, ground, and aerial networks. Hence, enabling wireless communication in one integrated network has attracted both the industry and the research fraternities. In this work, we provide a comprehensive survey of the most recent work on hybrid satellite–terrestrial networks (HSTNs), focusing on system architecture, performance analysis, design optimization, and secure communication schemes for different cooperative and cognitive HSTN network architectures. Different key technologies are compared. Based on this comparison, several open issues for future research are discussed.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/685621
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/21/8544
U2 - 10.3390/s22218544
DO - 10.3390/s22218544
M3 - Article
C2 - 36366243
SN - 1424-8220
VL - 22
SP - 8544
JO - Sensors
JF - Sensors
IS - 21
ER -
