New Convergence Architecture Between 5G Mobile Telecommunication Networks and Satellite Networks to Enhance Their Capacities and Improve Their Performance

Abstract

The subscribers’ growing demand in terms of mobile traffic requires the development of new architectures for the purpose of reinforcing the capacities, the performance and the geographic expansion of telecommunication mobile networks. As a matter of fact, the so-called fifth generation networks (5G) seem to be the best solution in order to respond to the increase of the traffic volume when satellite telecommunication networks bring large geographic coverage areas. With this aim in mind, in the current paper, we will focus on the establishment of new convergence architecture between both telecommunication networks: 5G and Satellite; in order to boost their capacity, their performance, as well as expanding their coverage areas. The intersection of the latter gives birth to a specific area called Handover Zone, where mobility management becomes totally different to ensure transparent current communication. This new architecture is essentially comprising two parts: hardware and software. Hardware sets up physical interconnection between both 5G mobile and satellite networks; while software integrates a specific algorithm that takes into charge the activation oftwo distinct mechanisms in propitious time to guarantee and optimal quality of service (QoS) when passing from one network to the other.