@article{shaat_pérez-neira_agapiou_chatzinotas_landmann_moreno_ntougias_núñez-martínez_tsinos_vigano_et al._2016, 
  title={Sansa: Hybrid Terrestrial-Satellite Backhaul Network For The 5Th Generation}, 
  DOI={10.5281/zenodo.58444}, 
  abstractNote={SANSA (Shared Access terrestrial-satellite backhaul Network enabled by Smart Antennas) is a project funded by the EU under the H2020 program. This paper describe the SANSA vision, approach and the benefits of the SANSA solution. The main aim of SANSA is to boost the performance of mobile wireless backhaul networks in terms of capacity, energy efficiency and resilience against link failure or congestion while easing the deployment in both rural and urban areas and assuring at the same time an efficient use of the spectrum. SANSA has two main enabling technologies, smart antennas and the hybrid network manager. By the smart antennas, each node can communicate with many of its neighbors where the hybrid network manager allows efficient use of the all the network resources. The research in SANSA is following two main paths: spectrum coexistence and self-organizing SON hybrid network. For the spectrum coexistences, the beamforming techniques that will enable the simultaneous operation of the terrestrial and satellite links considering the cost-performance trade-off. Additionally, smart dynamic radio resource management will be developed to explore efficient solutions for the hybrid scenario. Self-organizing load-balancing algorithms will be designed to aggregate the capacities of the terrestrial and satellite resources. A special care will be devoted to reduce the network energy consumption and to consider the delay in the satellite links. SANSA research efforts is focused in KA band where current CEPT recommendation allow coexistence of terrestrial backhauling services at 18 GHZ and 28 GHz with satellite-to-earth and Earth-to satellite links.}, 
  publisher={Zenodo}, 
  author={Shaat, Musbah and Pérez-Neira, Ana Isabel and Agapiou, George and Chatzinotas, Symeon and Landmann, Markus and Moreno, Isaac and Ntougias, Konstantinos and Núñez-Martínez, José and Tsinos, Christos and Vigano, María Carolina and et al.}, 
  year={2016}, 
  month={Jan}
  }