[Starlink] Invitation: Evaluating a Software-Based Time Alignment Layer Under GN... @ Mon Jul 6, 2026 9am - 10am (PDT) (starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net)

[Hesham ElBakoury <helbakoury@gmail.com>]

Evaluating a Software-Based Time Alignment Layer Under GNSS-Denied  
Conditions: Results from a 7-Day Stability Run
Monday Jul 6, 2026 ⋅ 9am – 10am
Pacific Time - Los Angeles

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In this presentation Francisco E. Torres Alvarado the founder of GAL-2  
Technologies LLC,  presents OCP timing gap, the GAL-2 Time Contract model,  
and the supporting evidence.
The presentation include ls a short demo of the current evaluator.

Title:
Evaluating a Software-Based Time Alignment Layer Under GNSS-Denied  
Conditions: Results from a 7-Day Stability Run

Abstract:
Maintaining temporal coherence in distributed systems during GNSS outages  
remains a practical challenge for cloud, telecom, and edge infrastructure.  
This talk presents measurement results from GAL-2, a software-based time  
alignment layer designed to operate alongside existing timing protocols  
rather than replace them.

GAL-2 does not implement NTP, PTP, or hardware clock disciplining. Instead,  
it provides a supplemental alignment layer intended to bound long-term  
divergence among nodes when external references are unavailable.

We report findings from a 7-day continuous evaluation known as the Solstice  
Run, conducted with no GNSS, PTP, or atomic clock inputs. System behavior  
is characterized using standard stability metrics, including Allan  
Deviation (ADEV), Maximum Time Interval Error (MTIE), and Time Interval  
Error (TIE).

The presentation focuses on observed measurement data, test methodology,  
and boundary conditions, rather than internal proprietary mechanisms.  
Integration considerations for OCP-compliant systems and existing timing  
stacks are discussed, with emphasis on resilience during reference-loss  
scenarios.

The goal of this session is to share reproducible empirical results and  
practical insights into how a software alignment layer may augment  
system-level timing robustness under GNSS-denied conditions

Bio
Francisco E. Torres Alvarado is the founder of GAL-2 Technologies LLC and  
creator of the GAL-2 Time Contract, an application-facing layer designed to  
help software determine whether time is safe to consume before committing  
state. The GAL-2 project focuses on application-boundary timing resilience,  
holdover behavior, rejoin safety, fail-closed operation, and temporal  
continuity under degraded timing conditions.

Organizer
Hesham ElBakoury
helbakoury@gmail.com

Guests
Hesham ElBakoury - organizer
ftorres@gal-2.com
5grm-satellite@ieee.org
ocp-networking@ocp-all.groups.io
ocp-tap-tsiaw+subscribe@ocp-all.groups.io
ocp-tap@ocp-all.groups.io
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