Distinguished Lecturer Talk: Building the World's Largest Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Network Testbed from the Ground Up
Speaker: Prof. Jianping Pan
University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Second-generation low-earth-orbit satellite networks, such as SpaceX's Starlink and Eutelsat's OneWeb, as well as upcoming ones such as Amazon's Leo and Telesat's Lightspeed, have attracted a lot attention in recent years, however, most academic and industry researchers still lack direct access to such systems, impeding their research progress and further improvement on space, air and ground integrated networks envisioned by sixth-generation mobile communication systems. In this talk, we will highlight a coast-to-coast-to-coast low-earth-orbit satellite network testbed with at least one node in each of the ten provinces and three territories in Canada, extended to all six major continents, with tools and datasets publicly available for the research community. The testbed has been augmented by outside-in approaches that can reach over 7 million Starlink user routers and over one thousand aircraft, being the largest around the world of its kind.
Dr Jianping Pan is a professor of computer science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He received his Bachelor's and PhD degrees in computer science from Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, and he did his postdoctoral research at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He also worked at Fujitsu Labs and NTT Labs. His area of specialization is computer networks and distributed systems, and his current research interests include protocols for advanced networking, performance analysis of networked systems, and applied network security. He received IEICE Best Paper Award in 2009, Telecommunications Advancement Foundation's Telesys Award in 2010, WCSP 2011 Best Paper Award, IEEE Globecom 2011 Best Paper Award, JSPS Invitation Fellowship in 2012, IEEE ICC 2013 Best Paper Award, NSERC DAS Award in 2016, IEEE ICDCS 2021 Best Poster Award and DND/NSERC DGS Award in 2021, and has been serving on the technical program committees of major computer communications and networking conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, ICC, Globecom, WCNC and CCNC. He was the Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium Co-Chair of IEEE Globecom 2012 and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He is a senior member of the ACM and a Fellow of the IEEE.
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- Khasm Labs
- 14400 NE 145th St
- Woodinville, Washington
- United States 98072
- Room Number: 3rd floor (marked 2nd floor in the elevator)
- Starts 02 October 2026 07:00 AM UTC
- Ends 09 November 2026 08:00 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge