Software defined intelligent satellite-terrestrial integrated networks: Insights and challenges

• Published in: Digital communications and networks Vol. 9; no. 6; pp. 1331 - 1339
• Main Authors: Yuan, Shuo, Peng, Mugen, Sun, Yaohua, Liu, Xiqing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology,Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Beijing,100876,China 01.12.2023; KeAi Communications Co., Ltd
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Reconfigurable networking; Satellite-terrestrial network; Software-defined network; Satellite-terrestrial network; Software-defined network; Reconfigurable networking; Artificial intelligence

Satellite-Terrestrial integrated Networks(STNs)have been advocated by both academia and industry as a promising network paradigm to achieve service continuity and ubiquity.However,STNs suffer from problems including poor flexibility of network architecture,low adaptability to dynamic environments,th...