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Main Author: Hu, Peng
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07842
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  • Recent advancements in low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites represented by large constellations and advanced payloads provide great promises for enabling beyond 5G and 6G telecommunications and high-quality and ubiquitous Internet connectivity to everyone anywhere on Earth. LEO satellite networks are envisioned to bridge the urban-rural connectivity gap for the digital divide. However, the digital divide can hardly be closed by only providing connectivity to rural and remote areas. Various unprecedented challenges brought by the emerging satellite Internet still need to be resolved, such as inconsistent end-to-end performance guarantees and a lack of efficient management and operations in these areas, which are referred to as "performance gap" and "management gap", respectively. This position paper will briefly discuss these gaps, approaches to addressing the gaps, and some research directions based on our recent works.