Software-defined satellite cloud RAN

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Ahmed, T., Dubois, E., Dupe, J.-B., Ferrus, R., Gelard, P., and Kuhn, N. (2018) Software-defined satellite cloud RAN. Int. J. Satell. Commun. Network., 36: 108–133, which has been published in final form at 10.1002/sat.1206. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

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