Telecommunications Science ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (2): 1-10.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2024033

• Research and Development •    

Analysis and suggestions on inter-satellite laser communication of satellite Internet

Shanzhi CHEN1, Zhiwen FAN2, Jiade JIN2, Yun CAO2,3   

  1. 1 The State Key Laboratory of Wireless Mobile Communications, China Information and Communication Technology Group Co., Ltd.(CICT), Beijing 100191, China
    2 FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies Co., Ltd., Wuhan 430074, China
    3 The State Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Technology and Networks, Wuhan 430074, China
  • Revised:2024-02-15 Online:2024-02-01 Published:2024-02-01

Abstract:

Satellite communication and terrestrial mobile communication have strong complemented co-benefits.Satellite Internet is the hot spot supporting current industrial development and an important part of the future 6G network.Global coverage requires interstellar networking, but inter-satellite communication bandwidth requirements and the instability brought by the free space channel pose new challenges to the space bearer network.Inter-satellite communication technologies and link interface technologies were compared and analyzed.An optical transport network (OTN) carrier network solution based on inter-satellite laser was proposed, which could fully leverage the advantages of the maturities and the economies of the scaled ground optical communication.It constructs a satellite-terrestrial integrated network with strong cost-efectivity, compatibility, and scalability.Finally, the technological directions and evolutions of the inter-satellite laser communication were discussed, and suggestions for industrial development in China were proposed.

Key words: satellite Internet, inter-satellite laser communication, OTN, satellite-terrestrial integrated network, 6G

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