Remote LPWAN Gateway With Backhaul Over a High-Latency Communication System

A method of remote management of a terrestrial gateway device in communication with a low earth orbit satellite, the method including:

• determining at a core server that edge computing code is required to be installed at the terrestrial gateway device configured to perform edge server functions for a plurality of remote devices, wherein the terrestrial gateway device is remote from the core server;
• transmitting from the core server to the low earth orbit satellite edge computing code for an edge computing code module that is to be executed by the terrestrial gateway device as part of the edge server functions, wherein the edge computing code transmitted to the low earth orbit satellite is broken into discrete batches or packets for assembly into assembled edge computing code at the terrestrial gateway device after transmission from the low earth orbit satellite to a satellite communication subsystem of the terrestrial gateway device;
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• wherein transmission of the edge computing code from the core server to the satellite communication subsystem via the low earth satellite is configured for prolonged persistence for high latency communication.

A server system for remote management of a terrestrial gateway device in communication with a low earth orbit satellite, the server system including:

• at least one core server processor;
• core server memory accessible to the at least one core server processor;
• wherein the core server memory comprises an edge computing code module library storing multiple edge computing code modules, and the core server memory stores program code executable by the at least one core server processor to configure an edge computing management module to transmit at least one edge computing code module selected from the edge computing code module library to the terrestrial gateway device via the low earth orbit satellite;
• wherein the at least one edge computing code module is executable at the terrestrial gateway device to enable the terrestrial gateway device to perform edge server functions;
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• wherein the edge computing management module is further configured for prolonged persistence for high latency communication for transmitting the edge computing code to the terrestrial gateway device via the low earth satellite.

In a terrestrial data communication gateway device for satellite communication with a low earth orbit satellite, the terrestrial data communication gateway device having at least one processor and memory accessible to the at least one processor, a method comprising:

• operating a low power wide area network (LPWAN) wireless communication subsystem responsive to the at least one processor to allow wireless communication between the gateway device and the multiple remote devices;
• operating a satellite communication subsystem to allow for prolonged persistence for high-latency wireless communication with at least one orbiting low earth orbit satellite;
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• operating the at least one processor to perform gateway server functions in relation to the multiple remote devices, wherein the server functions include executing multiple processing threads, the multiple processing threads including message processing threads to process messages communicated between the gateway device and the remote devices and communicated between the gateway device and the low earth orbit satellite.