Direct‑to‑device and the return of LEO ambitions
LEO satellite networks are returning to the mobile market, this time shaped by lower launch costs and changing industry economics, with lessons from Iridium still looming.
Tag: satellites
Secure and scalable rerouting in LEO satellite networks
Guest Post: How does the scope of failure awareness affect routing performance and resilience in Low Earth Orbit satellite constellations?
Geolocation and Starlink
The challenges of mapping IP addresses in the era of satellites.
Gigabit data rates on Starlink — what’s the catch?
Guest post: How Starlink could make your Internet faster.
Democratizing LEO satellite network measurement
Guest Post: Researchers create the new open-source methodology ‘HitchHiking’ to conduct the largest LEO network measurement to date.
A multifaceted look at Starlink performance: The good, the bad and the ugly
Guest Post: First-of-its-kind comprehensive analysis of Starlink performance using several measurement sources.
Navigating Starlink’s FCC paper trail
Guest Post: What I learned when I figured out how to navigate FCC filings.
E pur si muove: Sometimes steering is virtual
Phased array antennas and their role in model LEO communications.
A transport protocol’s view of Starlink
How TCP interacts with the characteristics of the Starlink service.
[Podcast] Measuring Starlink TCP performance
Geoff Huston explores the performance of the BBR and Cubic flow control algorithms on the Starlink network through comprehensive measurements.