Positioning 5G Management Interfaces for Mega-constellations Management (MegaMan)

Authors

  • Lars Moltsen Founder at Moltsen Advisory, Denmark, Project Leader of MegaMan until Jan. 2019
  • Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Fadil Inceoglu Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Victoria Antoci Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Néstor J. Hernández Marcano Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Lars K. Alminde Chief Product & Innovation Officer at GomSpace, Luxembourg
  • Per Henrik Michaelsen Software/Communications Engineer at GomSpace, Denmark
  • Christian Ingerslev Sørensen CEO at 2 operate, Denmark, Project Leader of MegaMan from Feb. 2019
  • Michael Jensen Software Engineer at 2operate, Denmark

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245–800X.723

Keywords:

Satellite mega-constellations, 5G management architecture, 3GPP management interfaces, service-oriented architectures, RESTful interfaces, OpenAPI

Abstract

MegaMan is an ongoing research project (2017–2019) investigating the possibility of reusing 3GPP 5G management interfaces for satellite megaconstellations. During the coming decade, a large number of megaconstellations are expected be launched for providing global internet, IoT, or special services e.g. for military or maritime purposes. With a huge volume of network elements (the satellites) and subscribers, the satellite constellation operators will find themselves in a similar situation as the early GSM operators in the 1990s when no standardised management system interfaces were available. Through the MegaMan project we want to lower integration overheads and enable commercial-off-the-shelf management solutions for mega-constellations. This article presents a series of experiments conducted in the first half of the project to apply 5G Management Function services on live satellite and simulated constellations.

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Author Biographies

Lars Moltsen, Founder at Moltsen Advisory, Denmark, Project Leader of MegaMan until Jan. 2019

Lars Moltsen is the CEO and founder of Moltsen Advisory. He is an experienced telecom/space/software engineer and entrepreneur. Lars holds an MSc degree in computer science and mathematics from Aalborg University (1996) and has contributed to a range of international research projects while working at Nokia, Texas Instruments, and three start-ups of his own, including most recently 2operate. Lars has authored around 20 conference and journal articles. He is the author of one patent (US7339950) in the field of mobile network (UMTS) access control algorithms. Lars acted as the project manager of the MegaMan project until January 2019.

Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen, Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark

Rune Hylsberg Jacobsen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering and head of the Networks an Analytics research group. He received an MSc degree (1995) in physics and chemistry and a PhD degree (1997) in optoelectronics from Aarhus University, Denmark. He is currently active in research and teaching in communication networks and is head of the research group Networks an Analytics. His professional career includes more than 13 years of industrial R&D from the telecommunication and IT industry where he has managed research & development products and teams.

Furthermore, he acts as an independent expert evaluator for the European Commission. His main research interests include networking, wireless communication, cybersecurity, data analytics, cooperating networks, and smart grids.

 

Fadil Inceoglu, Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark

Fadil Inceoglu (FI) received his MSc degree in Nuclear Sciences in 2010 from Nuclear Science Institute of Ege University, Turkey, and his PhD degree in Physics in 2015 from Aarhus University, Denmark. FI worked a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Section at the Department of Engineering of Aarhus University, Denmark between 2017–2019. His research mainly focuses on heliophysics, solar-terrestrial physics, and solar physics. He was a member of the Aarhus University Satellite Program, AUSAT (Delphini-1), for designing nanosatellite missions in the field of space weather and astrophysics. His main research interests include solar physics, heliophysics, CubeSats and machine learning.

Victoria Antoci, Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark

Victoria Antoci is an Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, at the Stellar Astrophysics Centre hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Her research background is stellar astrophysics (Asteroseismology). Victoria completed her PhD in Astronomy at Vienna University (Austria) in 2012. She is the Project Scientist and the Aarhus University Project Manager of the Delphini-1 mission. In addition to Delphini-1, Victoria has been actively working on data from several space missions related to her research (MOST, Kepler/K2, TESS).

Néstor J. Hernández Marcano, Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark

Néstor J. Hernández Marcano received the MSc in Electronics Engineering from Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela in 2013 and the PhD degree in Wireless Communications from Aalborg University, Denmark in 2016. He is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Section at the Department of Engineering of Aarhus University, Denmark since 2017. His research focuses on communication technologies for nanosatellite applications, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), the Internet of Things (IoT), network security, and cellular networks having also industrial experience in this latter. He is a member of the Aarhus University Satellite Program, AUSAT, for designing nanosatellite missions in the field of communication system and payloads. His main research interests include communication networks, CubeSats, network coding, radio frequency systems, signal processing for communications, security, and machine learning.

Lars K. Alminde, Chief Product & Innovation Officer at GomSpace, Luxembourg

Lars K. Alminde has a PhD from Aalborg University in control engineering and has worked through his academic and professional career to develop nanosatellite technology and applications hereof. He is co-founder of GomSpace and is today serving as its Chief Product and Innovations Officer and is also leading GomSpace’s initiative to bring the cost disruption of nanosatellites to the ground segment through its GomSpace Luxembourg subsidiary.

Per Henrik Michaelsen, Software/Communications Engineer at GomSpace, Denmark

Per Henrik Michaelsen is a Software Engineer at GomSpace A/S, Denmark, in the Satellite Communications group that he joined in 2017 working on satellite systems networking related solutions. Current work includes the first implementation of an OpenAPI (RESTful) interface for providing access to satellite telemetry (TMTC) and alarm information in accordance with the 3GPP specifications, and a longer-term focus on a networking design based on Delay and Disruptive Tolerant Networking (DTN). Per Henrik holds a M.Sc. degree in Control Engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark.

Christian Ingerslev Sørensen, CEO at 2 operate, Denmark, Project Leader of MegaMan from Feb. 2019

Christian Ingerslev Sørensen is the CEO of 2operate. Christian holds a Master’s degree in Control Systems Engineering together with a Master of Business Administration which gives him the technical insight and market- oriented mindset. For more than 10 years he has been working in leading positions in the Danish ICT sector, including Telenor Denmark and Bredband Nord, covering roles within management, strategy, and business development.

Michael Jensen, Software Engineer at 2operate, Denmark

Michael Jensen is a Software Developer at 2operate. Michael has a Master of Computer Science degree from Aalborg University where he specialized in distributed systems.

References

3GPP TS 32.101, ‘3G Telecom Management principles and high level requirements’, v.1.0.0, Apr. 1999.

International Telecommunication Union – Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), Recommendation M.3400, ‘Telecommunications management network’ (TMN), Feb., 2000.

3GPP TS 32.435, ‘Telecommunication management; Performance measurement; extensible Markup Language (XML) file format definition’, v.15.0.0, June 2018.

3GPP TS 28.500, ‘Telecommunication management; Management concept, architecture and requirements for mobile networks that include virtualized network functions’, v.15.0.0, June 2018.

3GPP TS 28.533, ‘Management and orchestration; Architecture framework’, v.15.1.0, Dec. 2018.

3GPP TS 28.532, ‘Management and orchestration; Generic management services’, v.15.1.0, Dec. 2018.

The OpenAPI Initiative web page, www.openapis.org

K. Hurley, V. D. Pal’shin, R. L. Aptekar, et al., ‘The Interplanetary Network Supplement to the Fermi GBM Catalog of Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts,’ The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, vol. 207, p. 39, Aug. 2013.

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Published

2019-05-25

How to Cite

Moltsen, L. ., Jacobsen, R. H. ., Inceoglu, F. ., Antoci, V. ., Hernández Marcano, N. J. ., Alminde, L. K. ., Michaelsen, P. H. ., Sørensen, C. I. ., & Jensen, M. . (2019). Positioning 5G Management Interfaces for Mega-constellations Management (MegaMan). Journal of ICT Standardization, 7(2), 109–126. https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245–800X.723

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2019: Vol 7 Iss 2

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