PROGRAM

09:00 - 09:05

Opening
Chairs: Nitinder Mohan (Delft University of Technology); Deepak Vasisht (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)


   
09:05 - 10:00

Keynote        
Session Chair: (TBA)

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Dan York
Internet Society

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break
   
10:30 - 11:30    

Technical Session 1 : Will it always work?
Session Chair: TBA


LEO Satellite Network Resilience Analysis: A Focus on Critical Satellites
Zhuoyuan Li (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Wenyi Morty Zhang, Wenhao Chen, Yiyan Hu (UC San Diego), Weyl Lu (UC Davis)
 
Observing the Skies – Ground-Based Cloud Detection for Evaluating the Impact of Clouds on LEO Communications
Eric Lanfer, Dominic Laniewski, Malte Wehmeier, Nils Aschenbruck (Osnabrück University)
 
Weathering a Solar Superstorm: Starlink Performance during the May 2024 Storm
Alagappan Ramanathan (University of California, Irvine), Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi (University of California, Irvine, VMware Research)
 
Choosing the Right Spot: How Well Are LEO Satellite Gateways Placed? Starlink Case-Study
Abdullahi Kutiriko Abubakar, Mohamed Kassem, Nishanth Sastry (University of Surrey)
   
11:30 - 12:30    

Technical Session 2: Something old, and something new
Session chair: TBA


Do We Need a Million Satellites in Orbit?
Demi Lei, Ahmed Saeed (Georgia Tech)
 
An In-Depth Investigation of LEO Satellite Topology Design Parameters
Wenyi Morty Zhang (UC San Diego), Zihan Xu (Carnegie Mellon University), Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi (University of California, Irvine, VMware Research)
 
On the Feasibility of Laser Inter-satellite Links for Low-latency High Frequency Trading
Vaibhav Singh, Akshay Gadre (University of Washington)
 
A Survey on Direct-to-Device Satellite Communications: Advances, Challenges, and Prospects
Hannaneh B. Pasandi (University of California, Berkeley and Inria), Juan A. Fraire (Inria), Sylvia Ratnasamy (University of California, Berkeley), Herve Rivano (Inria)
   
12:30 - 14:00

Lunch
   
14:00 - 15:00    

Technical Session 3: How does anything work?
Session chair: TBA


Trajectory-based Serving Satellite Identification with User Terminal's Field-of-View
Ali Ahangarpour, Jinwei Zhao, Jianping Pan (University of Victoria)
 
Segment Routing based on Geographic Checkpoints
Valentin Hartig, Marcin Bosk (Technical University of Munich), Nitinder Mohan (Delft University of Technology), Paulo Mendes (Airbus)
 
Starlink Performance through the Edge Router Lens
Sarah-Michelle Hammer, Vamsi Addanki, Max Franke, Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin)
 
StarQUIC: Tuning Congestion Control Algorithms for QUIC over LEO Satellite Networks
Victor Kamel, Jinwei Zhao, Daoping Li, Jianping Pan (University of Victoria)
   
15:00 - 16:00    

Panel Discussion (TBA)
Chair: (TBA)


   
16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break
   
16:30 - 17:30    

Keynote 2/Crowd Discussion
Chair: (TBA)


   
17:30 - 17:35    

Closing Remarks
Chair: Nitinder Mohan (Delft University of Technology); Deepak Vasisht (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)