Title
A User-Centric Handover Scheme for Ultra-Dense LEO Satellite Networks
Abstract
In recent years, low earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks (LSNs) have attracted increasing attention due to economic prospect and advantages in high bandwidth and low latency. In order to provide higher quality of service (QoS) and address the frequent handover problem among LEO satellites, we propose a user-centric handover scheme for ultra-dense LSNs in this letter. Our basic idea is to exploit satellite's storage capability to improve user's communication quality. By buffering user's downlink data in multiple satellites simultaneously, the terrestrial user can realize seamless handover and always access the satellite with the best link quality. Simulation results show that our user-centric handover scheme outperforms the traditional handover scheme in terms of throughput, handover delay and end-to-end latency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/LWC.2020.3007818
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Keywords
DocType
Volume
LEO satellite networks,Internet access service,user-centric handover
Journal
9
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
2162-2337
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Li Jian18531.63
Kaiping Xue257259.56
Jianqing Liu34013.39
Yongdong Zhang430.75