Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) employ inter-satellite links (ISLs) to reduce dependency on ground stations, enabling precise ranging and communication across satellites. Beyond their traditional role, ISLs can support extended applications, including providing navigation and communication services to external entities. However, designing effective contact plan design (CPD) schemes for these multifaceted ISLs, operating under a polling time-division duplex (PTDD) framework, remains a critical challenge. Existing CPD approaches focus solely on meeting GNSS satellites' internal ranging and communication demands, neglecting their extended applications. This paper introduces the first CPD scheme capable of supporting extended GNSS ISLs. By modeling GNSS requirements and designing a tailored service process, our approach ensures the allocation of essential resources for internal operations while accommodating external user demands. Based on the BeiDou constellation, simulation results demonstrate the proposed scheme's efficacy in maintaining core GNSS functionality while providing extended ISLs on a best-effort basis. Additionally, the results highlight the significant impact of GNSS ISLs in enhancing orbit determination and clock synchronization for the Earth-Moon libration point constellation, underscoring the importance of extended GNSS ISL applications.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Yan, Huan, Fraire, Juan A., Yang, Ziqi, Zhao, Kanglian, Li, Wenfeng, Hou, Xiyun, Li, Haohan, Miao, Yuxuan, Zheng, Jinjun, Kang, Chengbin, Zhou, Huichao, Chang, Xinuo, Wang, Lu
Language: English
Subfield: Aerospace Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6979239827
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