PROGRAM

09:00 - 09:05

Opening
Chair: Deepak Vasisht (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)


09:05 - 10:00

Keynote        

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Dan York
Senior Advisor at the Internet Society

Title: LEOs in 2024: Space Lasers, Policies, Coverage, and Connectivity
Over 7,000 satellites are now in low Earth orbit (LEO) with 10s of thousands more planned over the next few years. Where is this all going? High-speed, low-latency connectivity is changing people’s lives and helping connect so many of the unconnected, but at what cost? What are the opportunities and the challenges with providing Internet access from space? Two years ago the Internet Society published a perspective on the state of the LEO-based Internet access industry. In this session, Dan York will look at all that has happened over the past two years in terms of technology and policy, and also the many lingering issues and areas where more research is needed. He’ll explore the major barriers for operators and the new opportunities such as direct-to-device. There is huge potential for systems in LEO to bring the Internet to more people - if we are okay with the tradeoffs!
10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break
   
10:30 - 11:30    

Technical Session 1 : Will it always work?
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
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?
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 & Closing Remarks

Topic: Challenges on path towards integrated satellite networks.
Panelists:
Akshay Gadre (University of Washington),
Dan York (Internet Society),
J Pan (University of Victoria),
Mahesh K. Marina (The University of Edinburgh).
Moderator: Deepak Vasisht (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)