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Mobile Internet from the Heavens

Networking and Internet Architecture 2015-08-12 v1

Abstract

Almost two-thirds of the humankind currently does not have access to the Internet, wired or wireless. We present a Space Internet proposal capable of providing Zetabyte/ month capacity which is equivalent to 200GB/month for 5 Billion users Worldwide. Our proposal is based on deploying thousands of low-cost micro-satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), each capable of providing Terabit/s data rates with signal latencies better than or equal to ground based systems.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1508.02383,
  title  = {Mobile Internet from the Heavens},
  author = {Farooq Khan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02383},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1508.02063

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