[Starlink] leo-sat-net testbed

[J Pan]

our testbed is approved today and will be named after dave in his
honor (a global computer network needs a global people network of
collaborators) if his family ok's. can anyone help?
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J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan at UVic.CA, Web.UVic.CA/~pan

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 11:23 PM J Pan <Pan at uvic.ca> wrote:
>
> Hello All: we are putting together a proposal for a leo-sat-net
> testbed in canada (node locations due to funding constraints) but open
> to the research community worldwide. are you interested in using such
> a platform? your experience, feedback and comments are welcome too.
> cheers.  -j
>
> "2nd-generation low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite networks (LSNs),
> exemplified by SpaceX’s Starlink, Eutelsat’s OneWeb, Amazon’s Project
> Kuiper and Telesat (Canada)’s Lightspeed, promise to revolutionize the
> Internet access around the world on all Earth surface and above. Thus
> the research community has an urgent need to understand them
> specifically and further improve LSNs in general. However, many
> researchers are limited by the access to such systems due to
> availability, location, financial and expertise constraints. With a
> team of researchers across Canada specialized in computer networks,
> distributed systems, satellite communications, security and privacy,
> and cloud computing, this proposal builds a coast-to-coast-to-coast
> LSN testbed for Canada, leveraging the team’s experience particularly
> in building individual LSN test nodes and federating through remote
> access, bootstrapping the team’s research in LSN performance,
> reliability and security, and fostering collaboration in the research
> community and with industry across Canada and beyond. Specifically,
> the testbed will deploy at least one LSN testbed node in each province
> and territory of Canada, ideally in north, remote and indigenous
> regions, given the geo-diversity needed for LSN research. The testbed
> nodes also provide Internet access to the hosts and their local
> communities if needed, given the separate virtual local area networks
> and end-to-end encryption without compromising user privacy, for at
> least one year supported by the proposal with following years
> supported by local initiatives through the economic development
> enabled by the Internet access and external sponsorship. The testbed
> will be remotely and centrally managed through the regional and
> national centers hosted by the team, maximizing the uptime and utility
> of all testbed nodes, and scheduling and prioritizing measurement and
> test tasks submitted by researchers and collaborators within or beyond
> the team, similar to what Planetlab contributed to the distributed
> systems research in early 2000s. The testbed code and measurement data
> will be open sourced and released to the research community, enabling
> trace-driven simulation and statistical analysis worldwide, liberating
> Internet access in general and specifically LSN research traditionally
> limited to population centers and financially viable institutions.
> With Canadian users at priority, the testbed will also federate with
> other similar ones in the US and around the world, e.g., LEOScope led
> by the University of Surrey, to have a true global coverage while
> allowing international users to explore Canadian geographic and
> demographic features, including those in arctic regions. The testbed
> strives for self-sustainability after initial investment by providing
> a leveled test range for LSN service providers to compete, a training
> ground for highly qualified personnel for Canadian industry, and a
> playground to attract K-12 and particularly indigenous kids to have a
> technical career."
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> J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan at UVic.CA, Web.UVic.CA/~pan