This invention discloses a hierarchical
mobility management method and
system for
satellite-ground
collaboration in low-Earth
orbit (LEO)
satellite networks. It primarily addresses the problems of excessive mobility signaling overhead and over-reliance on ground stations leading to network robustness issues in existing technologies for user
mobility management. The solution involves: selecting key nodes for deploying
Mobility Management Functions (AMFs) through
network deployment planning to eliminate the maintenance overhead of virtual clusters; decoupling location updates from high-speed
satellite movement by constructing dynamic activity areas for users and implementing a lazy location update strategy; establishing a mapping relationship between user identifiers and multiple nodes to achieve distributed on-board storage of user data, avoiding strong dependence on ground stations; and establishing a hierarchical
paging mechanism, calculating the PCI index based on the user
mobility model, and dynamically selecting
paging strategies to achieve an optimal balance between
paging overhead and paging latency. This invention can significantly reduce the overall signaling interaction cost while ensuring service continuity and eventual
data consistency, effectively improving the robustness and autonomous operation efficiency of large-scale LEO satellite networks in scenarios with limited satellite-ground links, and can be applied to satellite communication networks.