TY - GEN
T1 - Hybrid Very High Throughput Satellites: Potential, Challenges, and Research Directions
AU - Bouabdellah, Mounia
AU - Illi, Elmehdi
AU - Bouanani, Faissal El
AU - Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-01-15
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Hybrid terrestrial-satellite transmission systems have been among hottest spots in the wireless communication industry due to the high demand for global high data rates. In such systems, free-space optical (FSO) technology is advocated for assessing the feeder links (ground-satellite) in order to fulfill high data rates requirements and provide a larger coverage in terms of the connected number of users. This paper gives an overview of various components of very-high throughput hybrid terrestrial-satellite communication system with an FSO feeder link, and Ka-band multibeam RF channels for the satellite ground link. In this survey paper, we depict the main communication challenges in the FSO side such as pointing error, turbulence, cloud blockage, and also the multibeam RF side such as spectrum scarcity, inter-beam interference, and security. Based on these challenges we point out some potential research directions.
AB - Hybrid terrestrial-satellite transmission systems have been among hottest spots in the wireless communication industry due to the high demand for global high data rates. In such systems, free-space optical (FSO) technology is advocated for assessing the feeder links (ground-satellite) in order to fulfill high data rates requirements and provide a larger coverage in terms of the connected number of users. This paper gives an overview of various components of very-high throughput hybrid terrestrial-satellite communication system with an FSO feeder link, and Ka-band multibeam RF channels for the satellite ground link. In this survey paper, we depict the main communication challenges in the FSO side such as pointing error, turbulence, cloud blockage, and also the multibeam RF side such as spectrum scarcity, inter-beam interference, and security. Based on these challenges we point out some potential research directions.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/666909
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9306099/
U2 - 10.1109/ComNet47917.2020.9306099
DO - 10.1109/ComNet47917.2020.9306099
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-1-7281-5321-6
BT - 2020 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Communications and Networking (ComNet)
PB - IEEE
ER -