The future of Satellite-Terrestrial 5G system and service integration

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The future of Satellite-Terrestrial 5G system and service integration

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 We are experiencing a massive societal transformation through the digital enablement of our world. The demand for connectivity for consumer and business continues to outstrip our ability to deliver services everywhere. The cost of rollout of wireless services into wider area is a major blocker to the productivity of rural and remote communities. Satellites could contribute to the solution, but current satellite systems are constrained by spectrum utilisation, and regulatory constraints on power flux density driven by a historic perspective on spectrum sharing between satellite and terrestrial systems.
The world is changing, the cost of manufacturing satellites and the access to space is dramatically falling, new materials such as flexible photovoltaic and lightweight composite structures, together with virtualised network functions and software radio platforms increases capability and flexibility. New paradigms such as megaconstellations are manifest, triggering significant investments in future constellations.
This talk outlines some of the opportunities that are driving the investment, and considers a number of future operational scenarios. To stimulate the imagination, a future concept for synthetic aperture communications satellites is described, able to deliver massive spectrum reuse and direct service delivery to future smartphones as an overlay to 5G.

The future of Satellite-Terrestrial 5G system and service integration

Paul Febvre, CTO Satellite Application Catapult, UK

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