Intelligent Space Communication Networks

Nowadays more than ever, we are witnessing an astonishing design and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solutions applied to a very wide set of problems and systems. Even if some of these techniques were already known, the world technological level was not high enough to guarantee their useful development in a wide set of applications and services. This recently changed. AI-based solutions are currently under study and development in communication networks to make them more “aware” of their situation, help them improve some of their functionalities (such as resource allocation), and allow them to offer an improved and more “smart” service to the final users. This applies also to satellite communication networks. This chapter offers an overview of the improvements due to the introduction of AI-based solutions in satellite communication networks, the aspects that distinguish the different solutions, the functionalities offered thanks to this integration, and the status of the main research activities and projects in this research field.