Non-Terrestrial Network Integration for Remote Connectivity: Field Study of Latency and Handover

Authors

  • Frantisek-J Bilcik Centre for Wireless Communications, Horehronie Institute of Advanced Technology, Brezno, Slovakia Author
  • Gregorio Aizpuru Department of Space Systems, Maestrat Institute of Advanced Technology, Vinaros, Spain Author
  • Judit-E Bencsik Department of Control Engineering, Zselic Institute of Advanced Technology, Szigetvar, Hungary Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22673943

Keywords:

Non-Terrestrial Network Integration for Remote Connectivity; Next-generation R&D; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Non-Terrestrial Network Integration for Remote Connectivity has moved quickly from a niche engineering question to something a
wider community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for non-terrestrial network integration for remote connectivity, covering the methodological,
practical, regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where engineers and reviewers are
still largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered
here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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