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Key Technologies of Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network: A Comprehensive Review

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Facing the urgent needs of wide area intelligent network and global random access, the independent development of terrestrial cellular communication system and satellite communication system will face great challenges in the future. Space-air-ground integrated network is considered to be potential in integrating the space-based network and terrestrial network to realize unified and efficient resource scheduling and network management. In this paper, the architecture, functional requirements, challenges and key technologies of the space-air-ground integrated network are reviewed. It is expected that the paper is able to provide insightful guidelines on the research of the space-air-ground integrated network.

This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grants 61871062 and 61771082, and in part by Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing under grant cstc2020jcyj-zdxmX0024, and in part by University Innovation Research Group of Chongqing under grant CXQT20017.

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  1. Macro Net Communication Co., Ltd., CASC, Beijing, China

    Chuanfeng Wei

  2. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China

    Chuanfeng Wei, Yuan Zhang, Ruyan Wang, Dapeng Wu & Zhidu Li

  3. Key Laboratory of Optical Communication and Networks, Chongqing, China

    Chuanfeng Wei, Yuan Zhang, Ruyan Wang, Dapeng Wu & Zhidu Li

  4. Key Laboratory of Ubiquitous Sensing and Networking, Chongqing, China

    Chuanfeng Wei, Yuan Zhang, Ruyan Wang, Dapeng Wu & Zhidu Li

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Wei, C., Zhang, Y., Wang, R., Wu, D., Li, Z. (2021). Key Technologies of Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network: A Comprehensive Review. In: Xiong, J., Wu, S., Peng, C., Tian, Y. (eds) Mobile Multimedia Communications. MobiMedia 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 394. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89814-4_5

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