CPC H04B 7/195 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0452 (2013.01); H04B 7/1855 (2013.01); H04B 7/18513 (2013.01); H04B 7/18519 (2013.01); H04B 7/18543 (2013.01)] | 14 Claims |
1. A control and management layer for an ad hoc network of cube satellites, comprising:
(a) a plurality of multi-use cube satellites having both a network communication ability and sensing ability;
(b) at least one ground-based hub for communicating with the plurality of multi-use cube satellites;
(c) an access gateway for energy constrained devices configured to communicate with the plurality of multi-use cube satellites; and
(d) a virtualization manager configured to make virtualized resources available to a slice controller and configured to map of physical resources in the ad hoc network to a plurality of virtual entities.
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