Communication Challenges and Opportunities in Satellite Networks
PRESENTATION: The wide footprint of satellites holds the promise of providing ubiquitous connectivity. However, challenges persist in overcoming bottlenecks to ensure sufficiently high data rates for under-connected communities while maintaining uninterrupted communication. This talk identifies these challenges regarding communications and networking perspectives, summarizes recent research efforts addressing them, and highlights key open issues for future investigation.
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- Starts 03 November 2025 06:00 AM UTC
- Ends 14 November 2025 06:00 AM UTC
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Dr. Gunes Karabulut-Kurt
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PRESENTER: Gunes Karabulut-Kurt is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in New Frontiers in Space Communications and a Professor at Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. She is the Director of the Poly-Grames Research Center, and is co-founder and Director of Education and Training of ASTROLITH, Transdisciplinary Research Unit of Space Resource and Infrastructure Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. She is also an adjunct research professor at Carleton University, Canada. Gunes received the B.S. degree with high honors in electronics and electrical engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkiye, in 2000 and the M.A.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. She worked in different technology companies in Canada and Turkiye between 2005 and 2010. From 2010 to 2021, she was a professor at Istanbul Technical University. Gunes is a Marie Curie Fellow and has received the Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist (TÜBA-GEBIP) Award in 2019.