Affiliation:
1. Department of Engineering Science, Guglielmo Marconi University, Via Plinio 44, 00198 Rome, Italy
Abstract
Traditionally, non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are used for a limited set of applications, such as TV broadcasting and communication support during disaster relief. Nevertheless, due to their technological improvements and integration in the 5G 3GPP standards, NTNs have been gaining importance in the last years and will provide further applications and services. 3GPP standardization is integrating low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, high-altitude platform stations (HAPSs) and unmanned aerial systems (UASs) as non-terrestrial elements (NTEs) in the NTNs within the terrestrial 5G standard. Considering the NTE characteristics (e.g., traffic congestion, processing capacity, oscillation, altitude, pitch), it is difficult to dynamically set the optimal connection based also on the required service to properly steer the antenna beam or to schedule the UE. To this aim, machine learning (ML) can be helpful. In this paper, we present novel services supported by the NTNs and their architectures for the integration in the terrestrial 5G 3GPP standards. Then, ML techniques are proposed for managing NTN connectivity as well as to improve service performance.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Computer Networks and Communications,Hardware and Architecture,Signal Processing,Control and Systems Engineering
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