In this paper, we propose an optimization framework for the resource and network
management in large-scale satellite communications (SATCOM) systems with stochastic
and time-varying communication requests. Because further expansions of SATCOM systems
are expected in the near future, it is of practical importance to develop management
methodologies for efficiently and robustly operating large-scale SATCOM systems. To
address this problem, in this paper, we formulate a SATCOM network optimization problem …