An apparatus includes: a transceiver configured to receive a satellite signal and to transmit one or more outbound signals; a memory; and a processor, communicatively coupled to the transceiver and the memory, configured to: transmit, via the transceiver, the one or more outbound signals; blank a first portion of the satellite signal spanning a first frequency set that includes at least a portion of an interference signal corresponding to transmission of the one or more outbound signals by the transceiver; and process a second portion of the satellite signal spanning a second frequency set that includes no frequencies of the interference signal; wherein the first frequency set and the second frequency set are different frequency portions of a same time portion of the satellite signal.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising: determining whether a backhaul communication path between a wireless communications node and a core network has become degraded; responsive to the backhaul communication path having become degraded, connecting a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite antenna for first bi-directional communication between the LEO satellite antenna and a radio element of the node; configuring the LEO satellite antenna for second bi-directional communication between the LEO satellite antenna and a LEO satellite; and based upon the configuring, facilitating outgoing communications from each of a plurality of wireless end-user devices to the core network via the LEO satellite and facilitating incoming communications to each of the plurality of wireless end-user devices from the core network via the LEO satellite. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may obtain, at an access stratum (AS) layer, an indication of an inter-satellite link (ISL) activation that is to take place at an activation time. The wireless communication device may receive communications. The wireless communication device may buffer the communications in a buffer at the AS layer. The wireless communication device may release the communications from the buffer to an upper protocol layer at a rate of release that is to change between a transition start time and the activation time. Numerous other aspects are described.

The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for discovering a low latency link in a non-terrestrial network (NTN). The method for a first base station according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise the steps of: if a second non-terrestrial network (NTN) link is established to a terminal via a second satellite while a first NTN link is established with the terminal via a first satellite, establishing the first NTN link as a temporary low latency link; acquiring first low latency link-related information for nodes of the first NTN link; acquiring second low latency link-related information for nodes of the second NTN link; determining a low latency link on the basis of the first low latency link-related information and the second low latency link-related information; and transmitting information of the determined low latency link to the terminal.

Various approaches for the deployment and coordination of network operation processing, compute processing, and inter-satellite communication coordination, within one or multiple satellite non-terrestrial networks, are discussed. Among other examples, a data center located at one or more satellites operating in a middle Earth orbit (MEO) plane, geosynchronous orbit (GEO) plane, or high-Earth elliptical orbit (HEO) plane, may be used to provide network and data processing operations for a low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellation.

A server device for managing a hybrid satellite and terrestrial telecommunications network system for Internet of Things (IoT) devices receives monitoring data from IoT devices. Each of the IoT devices includes a dual network interface controller (NIC) configured to facilitate the connection of the respective IoT device to a terrestrial network and a satellite network and sensors for capturing the monitoring data. The monitoring data includes network infrastructure integrity data and environmental data that describes environmental conditions surrounding a respective IoT device. The server device determines that the terrestrial network is experiencing an interruption using the monitoring data and identifies a group of IoT devices to be switched from the terrestrial network to the satellite network using the monitoring data. The server device can cause the group of IoT devices to switch communication from the terrestrial network to the satellite network.