Space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN), as an integration of satellite systems, aerial
networks, and terrestrial communications, has been becoming an emerging architecture and …

Delay-sensitive Web services are crucial applications in emerging low-earth orbit (LEO)
satellite networks (LSNs). However, our real-world measurement study based on SpaceX's …

Current and future communication scenarios are very different from those in which TCP was
conceived and developed, bringing new protocol requirements. Performance optimization is …

In the definition of advanced 5G scenarios, one of the possible configurations including the
satellite link is to consider it to provide a supplementary capacity to enhance backhauling …

The availability of multiple technologies to access the Internet is even more common in
today's connectivity scenarios. As an example, smartphones make use of 3G/4G data …

In case of an emergency event (eg, earthquake, storm, flood) cultural heritage and
archeological monuments must be particularly cared because of their inestimable value and …

5G system is a really disruptive new concept of telecommunication network because it will
make use of all the up to date technologies both at physical and network management layer …

A land mobile satellite (LMS) system is helpful to various fields such as commercial and
military applications thanks to its coverage, flexibility, broadcast capability, costs …

CubeSats, limited by size and mass, have limited functionality. These miniaturised satellites
suffer from a low power budget, short radio range, low transmission speeds and limited data …

This paper focuses the design and implementation of the middle-boxes virtualization and the
integration methods to the software defined architecture in the context of space-earth …