Our book chapter entitled “NFV-based Scenarios for Satellite -Terrestrial Integration” by H. Koumaras, G. Gardikis, Ch. Sakkas, G. Xilouris, V. Koumaras, M. A. Kourtis was published by IET at the book “Satellite Communications in the 5G Era” (Editors Shree Krishna Sharma, Symeon Chatzinotas and Pantelis-Daniel Arapoglou) (link to book site).
The book explores promising scenarios for 5G Satellite Communications (SatCom), novel paradigms for satellite-terrestrial integration and emerging technologies for the next generation of satellite systems and hybrid/integrated satellite-terrestrial systems, and focuses on recent research efforts towards 5G and beyond.
Our contribution focuses on describing NFV-based scenarios for satellite-terrestrial integration.