PATRONE , Fabio

The number of nanosatellites orbiting around the Earth is increasing year after year. Nanosatellite constellations can be deployed to cover even larger areas. However, data exchange among nanosatellites is not trivial, especially due to the required hardware components related to the limited size and weight. Moreover, in some cases, contacts...

Satellite constellations are envisioned as meaningful transport networks to forward data throughout the world, both as a solution for areas where there are no other telecommunication infrastructures or as a backup solution to support the terrestrial network. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites are the most appealing for this purpose due to the...

New applications related to the Internet of Things (IoT) concept are constantly growing and wide-spreading. Some of these applications are typically referring to urban environ- ments, such as the applications within Smart City and Smart Home scenarios, while others are mostly referring to rural environments, such as the applications within...

The Fifth-Generation of Mobile Communications (5G) is intended to satisfy the growing needs of users which can be summarised in the ability to access good quality services anywhere and at any time. Those needs can be supported by the integration of satellites in 5G systems due to the unique characteristics of satellites in terms of higher...

Since the previous decades, the Internet of Things (IoT) is capturing a major interest and making critical changes in our life. It has been established in different sectors all over the world such as health-care, agricultural, logistics, etc. Long range transmissions and low energy consumption are two main features that IoT communication...

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the paradigms related to the evolution of telecommunication networks which is contributing to the evolution of numerous use cases, such as smart city and smart agriculture. However, the current communication infrastructure and wireless communication technologies are not always able to guarantee a proper...

The design of Very High Throughput Satellite (VHTS) systems will be an important milestone for future telecommunications systems in the light of the ongoing integration between satellite and 5G technologies as well as with the upcoming 6G evolution. To this end, satellite systems will be operating at EHF frequency bands, hence requiring a...

The Fifth-Generation of Mobile Communications (5G) is intended to meet users' growing needs for high-quality services at any time and from any location. The unique features of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites in terms of higher coverage, reliability, and availability, can help expand the reach of 5G and beyond technologies to support those...

Multiple Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites have been deployed in constellations to provide User Equipments (UE)s with direct Internet connection at all times and from any location. UEs experience several handovers (HO)s during their service period due to the high speed of LEO satellites, which has a bad influence on UEs' Quality of Service (QoS)...

Multiple Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites have recently been launched in constellations to insure direct Internet access to users anywhere and at any time. Due to the high-speed mobility of LEO satellites, users undergo multiple handovers (HO)s during their service time, which has a negative impact on users' Quality of Service (QoS) if occurred...

Nowadays more than ever, we are witnessing an astonishing design and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solutions applied to a very wide set of problems and systems. Even if some of these techniques were already known, the world technological level was not high enough to guarantee their useful development in a wide set of...

The first global standard for Satellite Communications (SatCom) was published in April 2022 within 3GPP Release 17. It specifies the features enabling 4G/5G systems to support a satellite component. More than technical specifications, it also enables the integration of the satellite industry in the 3GPP ecosystem, involving organizations at a...

The agricultural sector increasingly relies on automated vehicles. These machines are often based on a CANbus control network and equipped with different wireless interfaces to implement different functionalities, such as remote control through radio links, GPS-based localization, and Wi-Fi-based data exchange. Nevertheless, CANbus presents...

The way of generating and distributing energy throughout the electrical grid to all users is evolving. The concept of Smart Grid (SG) took place to enhance the management of the electrical grid infrastructure and its functionalities from the traditional system to an improved one. To measure the energy consumption of the users is one of these...

Mega satellite constellations, now realized entities, encompass thousands of nodes. However, efficient orchestration of multi-hop paths and distributed processing tasks in Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) remains a considerable challenge. The integration of NTN systems into 5G cellular networks necessitates innovative adaptations of...