Mobile Orbital Domains describe dynamically changing network zones or communication areas associated with mobile users or platforms. They enable adaptive connectivity for devices in motion, such as vehicles, drones, or ships. The concept integrates mobility management, spatial awareness, and edge computing. Research focuses on optimizing handover, latency, and coverage continuity. Mobile orbital domains are central to the design of next-generation mobile networks.
We propose to jointly optimize path and gateway selection to achieve load balancing for mobile orbital domain-based hierarchical routing in satellite networks. The load at bottleneck gateway satellites can be reduced by 22% on average.
We propose a mobile orbital domain-based hierarchical routing scheme which addresses the challenges posed by constant satellite movement and the resulting dynamicnetwork topology, thus significantly improving the routing scalability and efficiency in satellite networks.
Our Giovanni Milione will present Mobile Orbital Domains: Addressing Dynamic Topology Challenges in Satellite Networks (JW4A.47) in Joint Poster Session III at the Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science (FiO LS) conference in Denver, CO, on October 29, 2025, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. We analyze satellite trajectories and identify satellite backbone networks with stable inter-satellite connections.