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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,351 Views
17 Pages

OTFS: A Potential Waveform for Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks in 6G and Beyond

  • Obinna Okoyeigbo,
  • Xutao Deng,
  • Agbotiname Lucky Imoize and
  • Olamilekan Shobayo

11 March 2025

6G is expected to provide ubiquitous connectivity, particularly in remote and inaccessible environments, by integrating satellite and aerial networks with existing terrestrial networks, forming Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks (SAGINs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,632 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Controller Deployment in SDN-Enabled 6G Space–Air–Ground Integrated Network

  • Zhan Liao,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Ying Ju,
  • Ci He,
  • Jiange Jiang and
  • Qingqi Pei

22 February 2022

The space–air–ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) is considered to be a significant framework for realizing the vision of “6G intelligent connection of all things”. The birth of 6G SAGIN also brings many problems, such as ultra-...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,850 Views
25 Pages

10 January 2025

This article presents a systematic review on blockchain-facilitated cybersecurity solutions for Internet of Things (IoT) devices in space–air–ground integrated networks (SAGIN). First, we identify the objectives and the context of the blo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,540 Views
19 Pages

30 March 2023

Space-Air-GroundIntegrated Network (SAGIN) has been becoming a promising future network construction to enable the integration of terrestrial communications, aerial networks and satellite systems, for achieving high data rate wireless access and seam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,814 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Objective Optimization for EE-SE Tradeoff in Space-Air-Ground Internet of Things Networks

  • Jinyi Zhao,
  • Yanbin Mei,
  • Xiaozheng Gao,
  • Jian Yang and
  • Jiadong Shang

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become increasingly popular, and its communication requirements have grown beyond what traditional ground networks can handle. The space–air–ground (SAG) integrated network has been proposed as a potential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,859 Views
21 Pages

With the construction and development of the smart grid, the power business puts higher requirements on the communication capability of the network. In order to improve the energy efficiency of the space–air–ground-integrated power three-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,417 Views
18 Pages

5 January 2024

The spectrum situation awareness problem in space–air–ground integrated networks (SAGINs) is studied from a tensor-computing perspective. Tensor and tensor computing, including tensor decomposition, tensor completion and tensor eigenvalue...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
11,090 Views
26 Pages

UAV Ad Hoc Network Routing Algorithms in Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks: Challenges and Directions

  • Yuxi Lu,
  • Wu Wen,
  • Kostromitin Konstantin Igorevich,
  • Peng Ren,
  • Hongxia Zhang,
  • Youxiang Duan,
  • Hailong Zhu and
  • Peiying Zhang

6 July 2023

With the rapid development of 5G and 6G communications in recent years, there has been significant interest in space–air–ground integrated networks (SAGINs), which aim to achieve seamless all-area, all-time coverage. As a key component of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
396 Views
14 Pages

14 October 2025

Security is paramount in space–air–ground integrated networks (SAGINs) due to their inherent openness and the broadcast characteristics of wireless transmission. In this paper, we propose a secure downlink transmission scheme with NOMA-ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,821 Views
15 Pages

Recently, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based space–air–ground integrated networks (SAGINs) have gained increasing attention due to their robust communication, broader coverage, and resource-saving advantages. However, it is imper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
173 Views
13 Pages

In this paper, we investigate the grant-free (GF) accessing for cyber–physical systems (CPSs) over space–air–ground integrated networks (SAGINs) by jointly considering system stability and power consumption. The problem of GF access...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,250 Views
45 Pages

UAV Communication in Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks (SAGINs): Technologies, Applications, and Challenges

  • Peiying Zhang,
  • Shengpeng Chen,
  • Xiangguo Zheng,
  • Peiyan Li,
  • Guilong Wang,
  • Ruixin Wang,
  • Jian Wang and
  • Lizhuang Tan

1 February 2025

With the continuous advancement of 6G technology, SAGINs provide seamless coverage and efficient connectivity for future communications by integrating terrestrial, aerial, and satellite networks. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), owing to their high m...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,450 Views
14 Pages

19 February 2024

Space–air–ground integrated network (SAGIN) is considered an enabler for sixth-generation (6G) networks. By integrating terrestrial and non-terrestrial (satellite, aerial) networks, SAGIN seems to be a quite promising solution to provide...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
11,714 Views
46 Pages

Mobile Edge Computing in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks: Architectures, Key Technologies and Challenges

  • Yuan Qiu,
  • Jianwei Niu,
  • Xinzhong Zhu,
  • Kuntuo Zhu,
  • Yiming Yao,
  • Beibei Ren and
  • Tao Ren

Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN) provide seamless global coverage and cross-domain interconnection for the ubiquitous users in heterogeneous networks, which greatly promote the rapid development of intelligent mobile devices and applicati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,463 Views
22 Pages

20 June 2023

As an emerging network paradigm, the space–air–ground integrated network (SAGIN) has garnered attention from academia and industry. That is because SAGIN can implement seamless global coverage and connections among electronic devices in s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,123 Views
15 Pages

Comprehensive Simulation Framework for Space–Air–Ground Integrated Network Propagation Channel Research

  • Zekai Zhang,
  • Shaoyang Song,
  • Jingzehua Xu,
  • Ziyuan Wang,
  • Xiangwang Hou,
  • Ming Zeng,
  • Wei Men and
  • Yong Ren

16 November 2023

The space–air–ground integrated network (SAGIN) represents a pivotal component within the realm of next-generation mobile communication technologies, owing to its established reliability and adaptable coverage capabilities. Central to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,537 Views
16 Pages

25 November 2024

The space–air–ground integrated network (SAGIN) can provide extensive access, continuous coverage, and reliable transmission for global applications. In scenarios where terrestrial networks are unavailable or compromised, deploying unmann...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,875 Views
24 Pages

Secure Transmission for RIS-Assisted Downlink Hybrid FSO/RF SAGIN: Sum Secrecy Rate Maximization

  • Jiawei Li,
  • Weichao Yang,
  • Tong Liu,
  • Li Li,
  • Yi Jin,
  • Yixin He and
  • Dawei Wang

10 March 2025

This paper proposes a novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted downlink hybrid free-space optics (FSO)/radio frequency (RF) space–air–ground integrated network (SAGIN) architecture, where the high altitude platform (HAP) co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
521 Views
19 Pages

1 October 2025

With the widespread adoption of space–air–ground integrated networks (SAGINs) in next-generation wireless communications, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a key technology for enhancing system performance through pas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,890 Views
20 Pages

An SSL-PUF Based Access Authentication and Key Distribution Scheme for the Space–Air–Ground Integrated Network

  • Liwei Xu,
  • Han Wu,
  • Jianguo Xie,
  • Qiong Yuan,
  • Ying Sun,
  • Guozhen Shi and
  • Shoushan Luo

6 May 2023

The Space–Air–Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) expands cyberspace greatly. Dynamic network architecture, complex communication links, limited resources, and diverse environments make SAGIN’s authentication and key distribution much...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,891 Views
38 Pages

30 April 2025

The Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) has emerged as a core architecture for future intelligent communication due to its wide-area coverage and dynamic heterogeneous characteristics. However, its high latency, dynamic topology, and privacy&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,494 Views
20 Pages

1 May 2022

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) is attracting considerable attention in the past few years as a new paradigm for large-scale information sensing. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have played a significant role in MCS tasks and served as crucial nodes in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,378 Views
17 Pages

19 June 2020

With the increasing demand for intelligent traffic management and road network intelligent information services, the vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) combined with information of air, space and ground have outstanding advantages in coverage, reliab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,303 Views
19 Pages

In Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks (SAGIN), computation offloading technology is a new way to improve the processing efficiency of node tasks and improve the limitation of computing storage resources. To solve the problem of large delay and ener...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
530 Views
28 Pages

27 November 2025

The sixth-generation (6G) system has been attracting increasing attention from both industry and academia, with the space–air–ground integrated network (SAGIN) identified as one of its key applications. This study investigates a SAGIN fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,361 Views
15 Pages

Machine Learning-Based Satellite Routing for SAGIN IoT Networks

  • Xueguang Yuan,
  • Jinlin Liu,
  • Hang Du,
  • Yangan Zhang,
  • Feisheng Li and
  • Michel Kadoch

Due to limited coverage, radio access provided by ground communication systems is not available everywhere on the Earth. It is necessary to develop a new three-dimensional network architecture in a bid to meet various connection requirements. Space&n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,902 Views
20 Pages

Non-Euclidean Graph-Convolution Virtual Network Embedding for Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks

  • Ning Chen,
  • Shigen Shen,
  • Youxiang Duan,
  • Siyu Huang,
  • Wei Zhang and
  • Lizhuang Tan

27 February 2023

For achieving seamless global coverage and real-time communications while providing intelligent applications with increased quality of service (QoS), AI-enabled space–air–ground integrated networks (SAGINs) have attracted widespread atten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,824 Views
21 Pages

With the increasing dissemination of the Internet of Things and 5G, mobile edge computing has become a novel scheme to assist terminal devices in executing computation tasks. To elevate the coverage and computation capability of edge computing, a col...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,591 Views
20 Pages

Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN), which is considered a network architecture with great development potential, exhibits significant cross-domain collaboration characteristics at present. However, most of the existing works ignore the match...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,368 Views
21 Pages

12 October 2024

Toward the vision of seamless global connectivity in the 6G era, the non-terrestrial network (NTN) in space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs) network architecture is one of the highly promising solutions. From the perspective of relay nodes, NT...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,660 Views
20 Pages

AoI Analysis of Satellite–UAV Synergy Real-Time Remote Sensing System

  • Libo Wang,
  • Xiangyin Zhang,
  • Kaiyu Qin,
  • Zhuwei Wang,
  • Jiayi Zhou and
  • Deyu Song

5 September 2024

With the rapid development of space–air–ground integrated networks (SAGIN), the synergy between the satellite and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in sensing environmental status information reveals substantial potential. In SAGIN, applica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,024 Views
20 Pages

8 April 2025

Onboard switching, as a core technology in satellite networks, offers robust support for the advancement of the Space–Air–Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN). The onboard switching fabric is tasked with achieving high-speed and large-capaci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,261 Views
19 Pages

18 April 2024

A UAV-assisted space–air–ground integrated network (SAGIN) can provide communication services for remote areas and disaster-stricken regions. However, the increasing types and numbers of ground terminals (GTs) have led to the explosive gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
879 Views
31 Pages

18 September 2025

With the rapid growth of user service demands, space–air–ground integrated networks (SAGINs) face challenges such as limited resources, complex connectivity, diverse service requirements, and no-fly zone (NFZ) constraints. To address thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,755 Views
21 Pages

DRL-Based Load-Balancing Routing Scheme for 6G Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks

  • Feihu Dong,
  • Jiaxin Song,
  • Yasheng Zhang,
  • Yuqi Wang and
  • Tao Huang

28 May 2023

Due to the rapid development of the space–air–ground integrated network (SAGIN), a satellite communication system has the advantages of wide coverage and low requirements for a geographical environment and is gradually becoming the main c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,137 Views
28 Pages

19 November 2025

This paper presents a comprehensive review of integrated terahertz (THz) and free-space optical (FSO) communication systems, focusing on their potential to address the escalating demands for high-capacity, long-distance, and ultra-reliable transmissi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
387 Views
27 Pages

The Space–Air–Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN), a core architecture for 6G, faces formidable routing challenges stemming from its high-dynamic topological evolution and strong heterogeneous resource characteristics. Traditional protocols...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,237 Views
27 Pages

6 January 2025

As the Internet of Things (IoT) expands globally, the challenge of signal transmission in remote regions without traditional communication infrastructure becomes prominent. An effective solution involves integrating aerial, terrestrial, and space com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
275 Views
23 Pages

The rapid advancement of low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has positioned space–air–ground integrated networks as a key enabler of large-scale IoT services. However, ensuring reliable end-t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,746 Views
21 Pages

13 July 2023

The homography estimation of infrared and visible images, a key technique for assisting perception, is an integral element within the 6G Space–Air–Ground Integrated Network (6G SAGIN) framework. It is widely applied in the registration of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,220 Views
22 Pages

22 August 2023

Ubiquitous connectivity is envisaged for the space–air–ground-integrated network (SAGIN) of future communication to meet the needs of quality of service (QoS), green communication, and “dual carbon” targeting. However, the off...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,644 Views
26 Pages

20 July 2023

We present a novel and first-of-its-kind information-theoretic framework for the key design consideration and implementation of a ground-to-unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) (G2U) communication network with an aim to minimize end-to-end transmission dela...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,451 Views
16 Pages

31 October 2023

The rapid development of sixth-generation (6G) mobile broadband networks and Internet of Things (IoT) applications has led to significant increases in data transmission and processing, resulting in severe traffic congestion. To better allocate networ...