A community-driven approach to democratize access to satellite ground stations

V Singh, A Prabhakara, D Zhang, O Yağan… - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Should you decide to launch a nano-satellite today in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), the cost of
renting ground station communication infrastructure is likely to significantly exceed your …

Democratizing {Direct-to-Cell} Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks

L Liu, Y Li, H Li, J Yang, W Liu, J Lan, Y Wang… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
Multi-tenant Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites emerge as a cost-effective win-win solution for
direct 4G/5G access to our regular phones/IoTs anywhere on Earth. However, the current …

Challenges for efficient and seamless space-terrestrial heterogeneous networks

JP Choi, C Joo - IEEE Communications Magazine, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By interconnecting satellites in the sky with ground stations on earth, space-terrestrial
networks can extend the coverage area and increase the throughput for both commercial …

Orbitcast: Exploiting mega-constellations for low-latency earth observation

Z Lai, Q Wu, H Li, M Lv, J Wu - 2021 IEEE 29th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite-based Earth Observation (EO) systems are gaining popularity and widely used in
many time-sensitive scenarios, including disaster monitoring, emergency response …

A networking perspective on starlink's self-driving leo mega-constellation

Y Li, H Li, W Liu, L Liu, W Zhao, Y Chen, J Wu… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite mega-constellations, such as SpaceX Starlink, are under
rocket-fast deployments and promise broadband Internet to remote areas that terrestrial …

A novel Software Defined Radio for practical, mobile crowdsourced spectrum sensing

P Smith, A Luong, S Sarkar, H Singh… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software defined radios (SDRs) are often used in the experimental evaluation of next-
generation wireless technologies. While crowdsourced spectrum monitoring is an important …

EagleEye: Nanosatellite constellation design for high-coverage, high-resolution sensing

Z Cheng, B Denby, K McCleary, B Lucia - Proceedings of the 29th ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Advances in nanosatellite technology and low launch costs have led to more Earth-
observation satellites in low-Earth orbit. Prior work shows that satellite images are useful for …

Edge (of the earth) replication: Optimizing content delivery in large leo satellite communication networks

T Pfandzelter, D Bermbach - 2021 IEEE/ACM 21st International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large low earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks such as SpaceX's Starlink constellation
promise to deliver low-latency, high-bandwidth Internet access with global coverage. As an …

Futuristic 6G pervasive on-demand services: Integrating space edge computing with terrestrial networks

Z Lai, H Li, Q Wu, Q Ni, M Lv, J Li, J Wu… - IEEE Vehicular …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Futuristic 6G technologies will integrate emerging low-Earth orbit (LEO) megaconstellations
into terrestrial networks, promising to provide ubiquitous, low-latency and high-throughput …

Towards Autonomous Satellite Communications: An AI-based Framework to Address System-level Challenges

JJ Garau-Luis, S Eiskowitz, N Pachler… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The next generation of satellite constellations is designed to better address the future needs
of our connected society: highly-variable data demand, mobile connectivity, and reaching …