[Starlink] leo-sat-net testbed

[J Pan]

Thanks Frantisek: glad to see dave's brother's blessing on naming the
testbed after dave, and i will follow up with them there. more people
taking networking for granted shall know dave and his stories as well
--
J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan at UVic.CA, Web.UVic.CA/~pan

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM Frantisek Borsik
<frantisek.borsik at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hey J Pan,
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> Dave's colleague from LibreQoS here, we will absolutely ask right away.
> Forwarding this email to Dave's brother and girlfriend with you on CC.
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> Thank you very much for this kind offer. Much appreciated.
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> All the best,
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> Frank
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> On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM J Pan via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>> --
>> 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."
>> > --
>> > J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan at UVic.CA, Web.UVic.CA/~pan
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