Load Balancing for 5G Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks

We propose a load balancing algorithm for a multi-RAT (radio access technology) network including a non-terrestrial network (NTN) and a terrestrial network (TN). Fifth generation (5G) and beyond-5G networks consider NTNs to provide connectivity and data delivery to large numbers of user equipments (...

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Main Authors: Syed Maaz Shahid, Yemane Teklay Seyoum, Seok Ho Won, Sungoh Kwon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
Subjects:
5G
NTN
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9143093/