Energy efficient hybrid satellite terrestrial 5G networks with software defined features

Software-Defined 5G Networks: Challenges, and Technologies

The commoditization of key processing components coupled with virtualization of infrastructure functions will lead to a radical change in the economics of mobile networks. The latter will help network providers (e.g., MNO, MVNO) move from proprietary hardware and software platforms towards open and flexible cellular systems based on general-purpose cloud infrastructures. In this context, 5G sys...

Efficient planning of satellite-terrestrial hybrid networks for multicast applications

As the satellite technology will be one of the main components of the Next Generation Internet (NGI), a naturally occurring question concerns the feasibility of providing an efficient satellite-based Internet access. In this paper, we are interested in the problem of the planning of satellite-terrestrial hybrid networks for the multicast transfer. We first develop an architectural model for suc...

Handover Management for Hybrid Satellite/Terrestrial Networks

Initially envisaged to support handover between different wireless 802.x network technologies, the IEEE 802.21 standard also appears as the good candidate for handover management in future integrated satellite / terrestrial systems. This paper presents an analysis of how this standard could be implemented in the frame of a realistic scenario and taking into account the current trends in wireles...

Software Defined Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Network: A Survey

SDN paradigm has successfully manage to pave the way toward next-generation networking, but the research on SDN-based integrated satellite and terrestrial network has just started. SDNenabled management and deployment architecture of integrated satelliteterrestrial network eases the complexity of management of infrastructures and networks, improves the maintaining and deployment costs, achieves...

Real-Time Prototyping of 5G Software- Defined Networks: Part 3