In this paper, we analyze the secure performance of satellite communication networks in Shadowed Rician Channel. It is very important to analyze the secure performance of the satellite-terrestrial networks. In this paper, both the Alice, Bob and Eve are equipped with single antenna respectively. Specifically, the exact closed-form expressions for the probability of non-zero secrecy capacity, the secrecy outage probability and the average secrecy capacity are derived, which provide fast means to evaluate the system performance. In addition, the channel we assume is shadowed Rician (SR) channel, which is close to the reality. Finally, simulation results are provided to verify the correctness of the analytical results.

The Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks (ISTNs) with Software-Defined Networking (SDN) incorporated have become the emerging architecture and have attracted considerable attention recently. Therein, the joint gateway and controller placement problem is of fundamental significance for designing ISTNs with flexible and efficient management capabilities. Hence, how to achieve network reliability maximization with low network latency in the joint placement problem is worthy of in-depth study. In this paper, a network partition algorithm, Simulated Annealing Partition-based K-means (SAPKM), is proposed and analyzed for further ameliorating the problem. Experiments are performed on real network topologies to validate the effectiveness of our approach for the joint placement problem. Compared with the state-of-the-art existing works, numerical results show that SAPKM outperforms when deploying four or more controllers in terms of network reliability performance, network latency, and inter-plane latency with less than 2 ms to converge.

This paper investigates the joint impact of channel estimation errors (CEEs) and hardware impairments (HIs) on the performance of a cognitive satellite-terrestrial relay network (CSTRN), where the terrestrial and satellite links are considered following Rayleigh fading and shadowed Rician (SR) fading distributions, respectively. Besides, the terrestrial relay is working in half-duplex decode-and-forward (DF) mode. By employing a general and practical model to account for both the CEEs and HIs at each link, the end-to-end signal-to-noise-plus-distortion-and-error ratio (SNDER) is first obtained for the CSTRN. Then, closed-form expressions for the outage probability (OP) and throughput of the CSTRN are obtained, which allows us to demonstrate the aggregate impact of CEEs and HIs. In order to gain insightful findings, we further elaborate on the asymptotic OP and throughput at the high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) condition and quantitatively determine the fundamental performance ceiling. Finally, Monte Carlo (MC) computer simulations are provided to verify the correctness of the analytical results. Besides, with representative numerical analysis’s help, interesting findings are presented.

In this paper, we investigate the performance of a two-way hybrid satellite multi-terrestrial cooperative network with hardware impairments (HIs). Particularly, opportunistic relay selection scheme is employed in the considered network, which can substantially enhance the spectral efficiency and spatial diversity gain. By considering both the amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) relay protocols, the closed-form expressions of the outage probability (OP) and throughput for the system are derived. Furthermore, in order to observe the effects of HIs level and the number of terrestrial relays on the system performance at high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), the asymptotic expressions of the system performance are also derived. Finally, computer results are presented to reveal the correctness of the analytical results.

Due to the increasing spectrum scarcity in satellite communications and terrestrial communications, cognitive satellite communications have received widespread attention. In this paper, we take the inherent feature that the terrestrial cognitive users suffer from inter-beam interference. In particular, for the first time, we consider the coupling characteristics of channel access and power optimization in opportunistic spectrum access based on distributed frameworks. We first formulate a joint channel access and power optimization game, which is proven to be an exact potential game and accordingly has at least one pure Nash Equilibrium (NE) point. The sufficient conditions for interference-free between cognitive users and for maximization of system utility are given, respectively. Also, the lower bound of the system utility is deduced theoretically. For discrete power control strategies, we then propose a joint-strategy iteration algorithm (JID) to converge to the general NE in two-dimensional discrete strategy space. Especially, to solve the challenge of finding the optimal NE solution in two-dimensional strategy space, we propose a novel joint-strategy iteration algorithm based on exploration and exploitation (JIDEE). Simultaneously, these two algorithms are extended to the case where the power control strategies are continuous. Finally, simulations are conducted to confirm the effectiveness of the formulated game and the two proposed algorithms.