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The space-terrestrial integrated network (STIN), one of the hottest trends in technology, is transforming our future through interconnecting heterogeneous devices. It has a revolutionary impact on reshaping the industry and changing the world. The extending of new generation network spectrum resources creates tremendous opportunities for obtaining high-level terrestrial network and brings a good prospect for the development of STIN, but STIN still faces a big change of resource shortage caused by the ever increasing heterogeneous devices. In this article, a new STIN architecture supporting virtualization technology is first designed to manage spectrum resource in STIN to satisfy various quality of service (QoS) requirements from heterogeneous devices. Then a dynamic virtualized QoS-driven spectrum allocation algorithm (VQSA) is proposed to improve the QoS from different devices in STIN. VQSA classifies heterogeneous devices into virtual cells according to their QoS correlation and determines the corresponding base stations and satellites for providing services. Spectrum resources in multiple base stations and satellites are rationally assigned in a virtual cell to serve heterogeneous devices with different QoS requirements. Finally, simulation results are provided to show the efficiency of the architecture and the VQSA algorithm in terms of transmission delay and transmission rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number of IoT devices has been growing significantly, and mobile network traffic is also increasing explosively. In order to meet the human desire to explore unknown areas, edgeless communications have always been one of the directions for the development of wireless networks. H-STIN is a promising solution to face the problem of large bandwidth requirement, massive machine type communication, and edgeless communication requirements. However, it is difficult to integrate communication protocols, routing problems, and resource allocation in the large-scale and heterogeneous network architecture. Therefore, this article proposes a potential H-STIN architecture based on the development trends of the Internet of Things, mobile networks, and satellite networks. Since TN has adequate computation resource and routing architecture, the backbone network is given to support an entire network, and AS is adopted to achieve regional self-optimization. The SSTIS is composed of the perception layer, the cognition layer, and the intelligence layer. It integrates IoT, SDN, and network functions virtualization technologies to achieve self-monitoring, crisis forecasting, and optimal control. Finally, the promising technical challenge, including integrated route planning and large-scale resource allocation, is given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]