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Wireless localization is a key requirement for many applications. It concerns position estimation of mobile nodes (agents) relative to fixed nodes (anchors) from wireless channel measurements. Cooperative localization is an advanced concept…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Henry Schulten , Gregor Dumphart , Antonios Koskinas , Armin Wittneben

Measuring photometric brightness is a common tool for characterizaing satellites. However, characterizing satellite mega-constellations and their impact on astronomy research requires a new approach and methodology. A few measurements of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Harrison Krantz , Eric C. Pearce , Adam Block

Due to the strong dependency of our societies onGlobal Navigation Satellite Systems and their vulnerability to outages, there is an urgent need for additional navigation systems. A possible approach for such an additional system uses the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Winfried Stock , Christian A. Hofmann , Andreas Knopp

Starlink delivers Internet services to users across terrestrial, maritime, and aviation domains. The prior works have studied its performance at fixed sites and in-motion vehicles, while an in-depth analysis of in-flight performance remains…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Muhammad Asad Ullah , Luca Borgianni , Heikki Kokkinen , Antti Anttonen , Stefano Giordano

With numerous ongoing deployments owned by private companies and startups, dense satellite constellations deployed in low Earth orbit (LEO) will play a major role in the near future of wireless communications. In addition, the 3rd…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Beatriz Soret , Petar Popovski

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite ISPs promise universal Internet connectivity, yet their interaction with content delivery remains poorly understood. We present the first comprehensive measurement study decomposing Starlink's web content…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Rohan Bose , Jinwei Zhao , Tanya Shreedhar , Jianping Pan , Nitinder Mohan

The growth of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband satellite megaconstellations is rapidly increasing the number of rocket launches. While improving broadband Internet helps achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there are also…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ogutu B. Osoro , Edward J. Oughton , Andrew R. Wilson , Akhil Rao

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are rapidly becoming essential enablers of next-generation wireless systems, offering global broadband access, high-precision localization, and reliable sensing beyond terrestrial coverage.…

In this paper, we present an open-source measurement platform designed to characterize the performance of commercial cellular (Verizon, a major US provider) and LEO satellite (Starlink) networks through real-world flight tests in rural…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Sravan Reddy Chintareddy , Sherwan Jalal Abdullah , Justin D. Clough , Victor S. Frost , Shawn Keshmiri , Morteza Hashemi

This letter investigates target position estimation in integrated sensing and communication networks composed of multiple cooperating monostatic base stations (BSs). Each BS employs a MIMO-orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) scheme,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Lorenzo Pucci , Tommaso Bacchielli , Andrea Giorgetti

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites have been envisioned as a significant component of the sixth generation (6G) network architecture for achieving ubiquitous coverage and seamless access. However, the implementation of LEO satellites is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Chenyu Wu , Shuai Han , Qian Chen , Yu Wang , Weixiao Meng , Abderrahim Benslimane

Modern global navigation satellite system receivers can access signals from several satellite constellations (including GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou). Once these constellations are all fully operational, a typical receiver can expect to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-23 Urs Niesen , Olivier Leveque

Issues with tracking, precision pointing, and Doppler shift are the major sources of performance loss in laser inter-satellite communication that can severely decrease the coverage and overall performance of satellite constellations. As a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Eylem Erdogan , Ibrahim Altunbas , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Inter-satellite-link-enabled low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are evolving toward networked architectures that support constellation-level cooperation, enabling multiple satellites to jointly serve user terminals through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Yuchen Zhang , Eva Lagunas , Xue Xian Zheng , Symeon Chatzinotas , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Starlink and alike have attracted a lot of attention recently, however, the inner working of these low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite networks is still largely unknown. This paper presents an ongoing measurement campaign focusing on Starlink,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Jianping Pan , Jinwei Zhao , Lin Cai

Traditional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) immunity to interference may be approaching a practical performance ceiling. Greater gains are possible outside traditional GNSS orbits and spectrum. GNSS from low Earth orbit (LEO) has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Peter A. Iannucci , Todd E. Humphreys

Satellite constellations in low-Earth orbit are now widespread, enabling positioning, Earth imaging, and communications. In this paper we address the solution of learning problems using these satellite constellations. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ruxandra-Stefania Tudose , Moritz H. W. Grüss , Grace Ra Kim , Karl H. Johansson , Nicola Bastianello

The development of low earth orbit (LEO) mega-constellation fundamentally threatens ground-based optical astronomical observations. To study the photometric properties of the LEO mega-constellations, we used the Xinglong 50 cm telescope to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-11 Hui Zhi , Xiaojun Jiang , Jianfeng Wang

In the last few years, considerable research efforts have focused on measuring and improving Starlink network performance, especially for user terminals (UTs) in stationary scenarios. However, the performance of Starlink networks in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jinwei Zhao , Jack Baude , Ali Ahangarpour , Vaibhava Krishna Devulapalli , Sree Ganesh Lalitaditya Divakarla , Zhi-Li Zhang , Jianping Pan

Location information is often used as a proxy to guarantee the performance of a wireless communication link. However, localization errors can result in a significant mismatch with the guarantees, particularly detrimental to users operating…