Journal Article

Positioning 5G Management Interfaces for Mega-constellations Management (MegaMan)

Inceoglu, Fadil, Jensen, Michael, Jacobsen, Rune Hylsberg, Antoci, Victoria, Alminde, Lars K, Sørensen, Christian Ingerslev, Michaelsen, Per Henrik, Moltsen, Lars, Hernández Marcano, Néstor J

2019

Overview

MegaMan is an ongoing research project (2017–2019) investigating the possibility of reusing 3GPP 5G management interfaces for satellite megaconstellations. During the coming decade, a large number of megaconstellations are expected be launched for providing global internet, IoT, or special services e.g. for military or maritime purposes. With a huge volume of network elements (the satellites) and subscribers, the satellite constellation operators will find themselves in a similar situation as the early GSM operators in the 1990s when no standardised management system interfaces were available. Through the MegaMan project we want to lower integration overheads and enable commercial-off-the-shelf management solutions for mega-constellations. This article presents a series of experiments conducted in the first half of the project to apply 5G Management Function services on live satellite and simulated constellations.

• Publisher: River Publishers
• Subject: Architecture / Communications networks / Experiments / Ground stations / Interfaces / Internet of Things / Network management systems / Operators / Performance management / Project management / Research projects / Satellite constellations / Satellites / Security management / User services