A multi-link satellite processor is described that provides command or control information to a vehicle via multi-link satellite downlink signals. Embodiments of the invention provide an Earth-based multi-link satellite processor that process information to generate the command information and to transmit the command information to commercial satellite or low-Earth orbit and satellites. The command information is provided to a vehicle via the multi-link satellite downlink signal in which one or more commercial satellites and at least one low-Earth orbiting satellite are used to generate the multi-link satellite downlink signal.

Within a satellite communications system, a base station communicates with standard compliant user equipment (UE) via a satellite having a field of view. The base station has a processor that instructs the satellite to generate a wide beam signal covering a plurality of cells in the field of view, and detects an access request from a user equipment within the plurality of cells over the wide beam signal. The base station, comprising a processing device such as an eNodeB, then generates one or more network broadcast/access signals that is uplink to a satellite and broadcasted via one or more nominal beams generated by the satellite, covering all the inactive cells, one of the plurality of cells having the access request.

A receiver determines whether an outbound carrier frequency among a plurality of outbound carrier frequencies, as received, includes interference. Based at least in part on a result of the determining, a new outbound carrier frequency is selected for the receiver. Optionally, the receiver sends an interference report to a system controller.

A system and method for Time Division Multiplexing a signal for a beam hopping relay including generating the signal by interleaving first multi-variable length SuperFrames (VLSFs) with second multi-VLSFs; and transmitting the signal to the beam hopping relay. In the method, the first multi-VLSFs includes at least one first VLSF, the second multi-VLSFs includes at least one second VLSF, each of the first multi-VLSFs has a duration of a first dwell period, each of the second multi-VLSFs has a duration of a second dwell period, each of the at least one first VLSF and each of the at least one second VLSFs includes at least one SuperFrame unit (SFU). Further, the first dwell period is an integral multiple of the first duration, the second dwell period is an integral multiple of the second duration, and the first duration is different than the second duration.

Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: determining, based on area configuration information of a first cell of a network device and location information of a terminal device, a first sub-area corresponding to the terminal device, where the area configuration information indicates information about a plurality of sub-areas corresponding to the first cell, and the plurality of sub-areas include the first sub-area; and obtaining satellite ephemeris information corresponding to the first sub-area. In the foregoing solution, the sub-area is introduced, and the terminal device only needs to obtain the satellite ephemeris information corresponding to the sub-area in which the terminal device is located. This reduces an amount of satellite ephemeris information obtained by the terminal device, and therefore can reduce overheads of the terminal device.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network entity may receive, from a relay node via a radio access link, information indicating a link layer identifier of the relay node associated with a relay service, wherein the relay node is associated with a radio access identifier. The network entity may configure a relay service with the relay node and a remote node using a mapping between the radio access identifier and the link layer identifier. Numerous other aspects are described.

Device and method controlling for an antenna, an antenna system and a computing control device are provided. The antenna includes multiple antenna array elements and multiple phase shifters for calibrating phases of the multiple antenna array elements. The device includes a temperature sensor, a positioning unit and a computing control unit, the temperature sensor is configured to obtain temperature information of the antenna and output it to the computing control unit; the positioning unit is configured to obtain position information of the antenna and output it to the computing control unit; the computing control unit is configured to receive the position information and temperature information of the antenna, determine position information of a satellite, and control the phase shifters to adjust phases of the multiple antenna array elements according to the position information the temperature information of the antenna, the position information of the satellite and pre-stored calibration data.

The present disclosure provides methods and systems for locally suppressing interference in RF communications by satellites and related methods of using such systems. In some aspects, the interference suppression is performed by one or more small form factor satellites (e.g., CubeSats).

A communication method and an apparatus in a wireless communication system are provided. The communication method includes identifying, by a first satellite including a session management function within a space core network (SCN), a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment request from a UE, selecting, by the first satellite, a satellite gateway for communicating with a ground gateway, and requesting, by the first satellite, the satellite gateway to allocate a port number which is matched to identification information of a first general packet radio service (GPRS) tunneling protocol-user (GTP-U) tunnel to be used for transmission and reception of packets for a PDU session requested by the UE in a path between a satellite base station which the UE accesses and the satellite gateway, wherein the packets are transmitted or received to and from a terrestrial core network (TCN) by using address information which is converted based on the port number.

This application provides a method and an apparatus for updating a timing offset, and is particularly applicable to an NTN network such as satellite communication. The terminal side method includes: A terminal receives a timing offset difference ΔKoffset, and updates a timing offset based on the ΔKoffset to obtain an updated timing offset. The network side method includes: A network device determines a timing offset difference ΔKoffset, and sends the ΔKoffset to a terminal device, wherein the ΔKoffset is used for the terminal device to update a timing offset.