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Telecom

Telecom is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on communications and networks published bimonthly online by MDPI.
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In this paper, we propose a two-way hybrid satellite–terrestrial relay scheme employing Fountain codes (FCs). In the proposed model, a satellite and a ground user exchange data through a group of terrestrial relay stations, in the presence of an eavesdropper. In the first phase, the satellite and the ground user simultaneously transmit their encoded packets to the relay stations. The relay stations then apply a successive interference cancelation (SIC) technique to decode the received packets. To reduce the quality of the eavesdropping links, a cooperative jammer is employed to transmit jamming signals toward the eavesdropper during the first phase. Next, one of the relay stations which can successfully decode the encoded packets from both the satellite and the ground user is selected for data forwarding, by using a partial relay selection method. Then, this selected relay performs an XOR operation on the two encoded packets, and then broadcasts the XOR-ed packet to both the satellite and the user in the second phase. We derive exact closed-form expressions of outage probability (OP), system outage probability (SOP), intercept probability (IP), and system intercept probability (SIP), and realize simulations to validate these expressions. This paper also studies the trade-off between OP (SOP) and IP (SIP), as well as the impact of various system parameters on the performance of the proposed scheme.

4 January 2026

System model of the proposed TW-HSTR scheme using 
  
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The current paper retrieves implicit quiescent soliton solutions to optical metamaterials with nonlinear chromatic dispersion with generalized temporal evolution. Seven forms of self-phase modulation structures, as proposed by Kudryashov with time, are taken up. The implemented integration algorithm is Lie symmetry. A few of the solutions are in quadratures, while others are in terms of special functions. We also characterize the parameters that constrain the existence of such solutions.

4 January 2026

Leveraging 5G RedCap and Spiking Neural Networks for Energy Efficiency in Edge Devices

  • Michail Alexandros Kourtis,
  • Andreas Oikonomakis and
  • Achileas Economopoulos
  • + 5 authors

This work presents an energy-efficient implementation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based systems over 5G networks with on-board accelerated processing capabilities and provides a preliminary evaluation of the integrated solution. The study is a two-fold comparative analysis focused on connectivity and edge processing for UAVs. Two discrete deployment scenarios are implemented, where standard 5G configuration with artificial neural network (ANN) processing is evaluated against 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) connectivity, paired with Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). Both proposed energy-efficient alternative solutions are designed to offer significant energy savings; this paper examines whether they are suitable candidates for energy-constrained environments, i.e., UAVs, and quantifies their impact on the overall energy consumption of the system. The integrated solution, with 5G RedCap/SNNs, achieves energy-use reductions approaching 60%, which translates to an approximate 35% increase in flight time. The experimental evaluations were performed in a real-world deployment using a 5G-equipped UAV with edge-processing capabilities based on NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin.

2 January 2026

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access

Space and satellite-based systems have had a monumental impact on providing greater interconnectivity across the world. The usage of space and satellite-based systems has increased the ability to access internet resources even in remote areas. Unfortunately, these systems are subject to malicious and multi-faceted cyberattacks. Therefore, proper threat detection systems must be implemented to safeguard these space systems. In our study, we present our novel intrusion detection framework, SpIDER, a space satellite intrusion detection system using explainable reinforcement learning. SpIDER leverages the benefits offered by reinforcement learning and Shapley additive global explanations to improve both the performance and explainability of space-based intrusion detection. We compare our SpIDER framework to several popular machine learning algorithms using the STIN and NSL-KDD datasets. We observe that our SpIDER framework achieves high performance, with accuracy and G-Mean above 99.98% on the STIN satellite dataset. SpIDER also outperforms other machine learning models on the NSL-KDD local area network dataset, achieving accuracy of 76.71% and a G-Mean of 80.49%. These results demonstrate that our SpIDER explainable deep reinforcement learning framework can perform as well or better than supervised machine learning models on both satellite-style and local area network data.

1 January 2026

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