Economic Theoretic LEO Satellite Coverage Control: An Auction-based Framework

Recently, ultra-dense low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation over high-frequency bands has considered as one of promising solutions to supply coverage all over the world. Given satellite constellations, efficient beam coverage schemes should be employed at satellites to provide seamless services and full-view coverage. In LEO systems, hybrid wide and spot beam coverage schemes are generally used, where the LEO provides a wide beam for large area coverage and additional several steering spot beams for high speed data access. In this given setting, scheduling multiple spot beams is essentially required. In order to achieve this goal, Vickery-Clarke-Groves (VCG) auction-based trustful algorithm is proposed in this paper for scheduling multiple spot beams for more efficient seamless services and full-view coverage.