Frank Uyeda who led Google Loon project presented the paper "SDN in the stratosphere: loon's aerospace mesh network" in Sigcomm 2022. "The paper validates TS-SDN as a compelling architecture for orchestrating networks of moving platforms and steerable beams, and provides insights for those building similar networks in the future"

You can access this paper here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544216.3544231

Hesham

On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 11:37 AM Michael Richardson via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

David Lang via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> Google shuttered project Loon (balloons to do this rather than UAVs) in
> the last year or two

I heard that too, but also that some external entity then put up some money
and partnered to start it up again.

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