Speakers:
Brandon Lucia - Carnegie Mellon University
Ranveer Chandra - Microsoft
Lili Qiu - University of Texas, Austin
Cristel Pelsser - UCLouvain
Aravindh Raman - Sky and Telefonica Research
François Michel - UCLouvain
Organizers:
Jim Kurose - UMass
Nishanth Sastry - University of Surrey
Debopam Bhattacherjee - Microsoft
Mohamed Kassem - University of Surrey
Reusable boosters and compact satellite design have made it viable to deploy thousands of low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites offering broadband Internet, imagery, IoT, and other services from space. Inter-satellite lasers and low latencies of LEO make communication efficient. The panelists will discuss these opportunities alongside the challenges that might arise due to fast-moving LEO satellites, transient up/down links, weather and interference issues, ground station scarcity, and many other factors. They will also touch upon the interesting systems research challenges.