The disclosed method for a communication satellite may include (1) simultaneously generating a first transmission beam to a first ground station and a second transmission beam to each of a plurality of second ground stations in sequence according to a schedule, (2) simultaneously receiving a third transmission beam from the first ground station and a fourth transmission beam from each of the second ground stations in sequence according to the schedule, (3) forwarding first data received via the third transmission beam to each of the second ground stations via the second transmission beam, and (4) forwarding second data received via the fourth transmission beam from each of the second ground stations to the first ground station via the first transmission beam. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.

The disclosed method for a communication satellite may include (1) simultaneously generating a first transmission beam to a first ground station and a second transmission beam to each of a plurality of second ground stations in sequence according to a schedule, (2) simultaneously receiving a third transmission beam from the first ground station and a fourth transmission beam from each of the second ground stations in sequence according to the schedule, (3) forwarding first data received via the third transmission beam to each of the second ground stations via the second transmission beam, and (4) forwarding second data received via the fourth transmission beam from each of the second ground stations to the first ground station via the first transmission beam. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.

An aggregation router for an aircraft may include processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may be configured to receive a first channel from a first airborne radio, and receive a second channel from a second airborne radio. The first and second channels may be WAN connections to wireless communication network resources on the ground. The processing circuitry may be further configured to aggregate the first and second channels for service to LAN connections on the aircraft, which LAN connections may include one or more short range wireless communication access points.

Systems and methods for routing data packets in mobile ad-hoc networks. An interest packet is sent from a data consumer to a data producer via multiple intermediate routing devices. The interest packet is transmitted from one routing device to the next routing device based on the geographic position of the routing devices and the interest message carries information about the links and network nodes it passes when being transmitted. The data packet is transmitted from the data producer to the data consumer the same path in the reverse order. In case one of the intermediate nodes is not available anymore, due to the mobile nature of the ad-hoc network, an opportunistic forwarding strategy is applied.

A gateway station switching method and apparatus. When quality of a link from a terminal device to a source gateway station through a satellite is poor, the source gateway station sends third indication information to a target gateway station, so that the target gateway station feeds back second channel quality to the source gateway station, that is, quality of a link from the terminal device to the target gateway station through the satellite. The source gateway station determines, based on the second channel quality and first channel quality that represents the quality of the link from the terminal device to the source gateway station through the satellite, whether to switch the terminal device to the target gateway station.

A cell handover method, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: a terminal device receives a handover trigger condition, the handover trigger condition comprising a condition based on a time window (S201), the time window being representing a handover time when the terminal device initiates a conditional handover.

A satellite provides communication between user terminals (UTs) and ground stations that connect to other networks, such as the Internet. Because the satellite is within range of many UTs at any given time, many UTs are in contention to use an uplink to send upstream data to the satellite. This saturates a random-access channel (RACH) on the uplink. When a UT has data to uplink, it sends a short buffer data status (SBDS) message using the RACH. The minimal size of the SBDS facilitates use of a non-orthogonal multiple access uplink. Based on the SBDS, the satellite allocates a grant to the UT to use the uplink. Additional messages from the UT involving buffer status may be sent using the granted uplink. Unsolicited grants may be issued to the UT based on analysis of uplink and downlink traffic. If needed, the RACH may still be used to request additional grants.

Systems and methods model earth stations and other captive terrestrial sites as simulated cell sites in a radio access network (RAN) to identify potential cellular network interferers with the earth stations. A computing device selects an earth station within a geographic area of a RAN segment and model the earth station as a cell within the RAN segment, wherein the modeling creates a simulated earth station cell. The computing device obtains sector carrier data for cells in the RAN segment and scores, based on the sector carrier data, neighboring cells to the simulated earth station cell. The scoring indicates a level of potential interference of the neighboring cells with the earth station based on geo-spatial relevance. The computing device identifies projected mobility interference in neighboring cells to the earth station and provides prioritization recommendations for interference mitigation for the earth station based on the scoring and the identifying.

A framework for a 6.sup.th generation (6G) ubiquitous wireless communications network is provided. A system comprises: a memory that stores executable instructions; and a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the executable instructions to perform operations. The operations comprise: obtaining first information associated with a first condition of a terrestrial radio network of terrestrial radio networks from a terrestrial controller that collects the first information from the terrestrial radio networks; determining second information associated with a resource of a satellite network, wherein the satellite network is integrated with the terrestrial radio networks to form an integrated network to which a mobile device connects, wherein a defined application is alternatively executable at the mobile device via any of a group of networks, the group comprising the satellite network and the terrestrial radio networks; and determining whether to re-assign the defined application from the terrestrial radio network to the satellite network based on a result of evaluating at least the first condition.

A method for balancing inroute traffic load that contains both guaranteed QoS and best effort traffic. Hierarchical grouping levels are defined with the lowest level corresponding to inroutes within the system. Certain levels have common symbol rates, modulation rates, or both. When a new terminal requires admission, it is assigned to entries in the different hierarchical levels so that the inroute traffic load across all levels are balanced. Terminals are admitted to inroutes based, in part, on their channel quality indicator. Inroute traffic load can periodically rebalance based on elapsed time or terminal redistribution.