Opportunistic Federation of CubeSat Constellations: A Game-Changing Paradigm Enabling Enhanced IoT Services in the Sky

Internet of Space Things (IoST) is a challenging paradigm, which currently attracting great interest from the scientific and industrial communities. IoST based on integration space segment into global (IoT) infrastructure. In relevant literature, reference generally made to multiple constellations nanosatellite platforms, used enable IoT services scale, including also disadvantaged poorly infrastructured areas. this paper, we focus multi-tenant scenarios, wherein CubeSats are enabled offer by exploiting dynamic federation model. The objective efficiently provide in an scenario leveraging effective cooperation strategy originally designed for terrestrial networks, Mobile-IoT-Federation-as-a-Service (MIFaaS) paradigm. We extend vision satellite networks order allow constellation satellites effectively execute tasks through tight cooperative behaviour with other constellations. reported performance evaluation studies show that better performance, terms percentage successfully completed, can be achieved implementation proposed